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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.
Louise Penny
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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
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City of Toronto
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No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
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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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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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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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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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How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.
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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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The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help
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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.
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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.
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When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
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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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Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
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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
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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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Things are strongest where they're broken.
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Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
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The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.
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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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