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Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

Louise Penny

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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
Author
Journalist
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City of Toronto
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Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.
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Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.
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It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
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The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help
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Things are strongest where they're broken.
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
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Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.
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Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?
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I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.
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In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.
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Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
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When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
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Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
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A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
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Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
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The night is a strawberry.
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