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Shirley Ann Grau

  • “... his eyes were shiny and flat as mirrors.”

  • “And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? ... First him, and then his memory ...”

  • “At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.”

    • Shirley Ann Grau,
    • "The Patriarch," The Wind Shifting West ()

  • “Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?”

    • Shirley Ann Grau,
    • "The Way Back," The Wind Shifting West ()

Shirley Ann Grau, U.S. writer

(1929)