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Annie Proulx
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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Journalist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
E.A. Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx
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...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
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Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.
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It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.
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Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.
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What we fear we often rage against.
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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
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A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
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I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.
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He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.
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I wish I knew how to quit you.
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And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
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I would rather be dead than not read
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Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
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Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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