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E. Annie Proulx
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“One of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
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“He smelled submission in Quoyle, guessed he was butter of fair spreading consistency.”
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“By January it had always been winter.”
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“We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.”
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“All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.”
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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, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.”
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“No wonder, he thought, that panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in a sudden, violent atmosphere. Weather kept them humble.”
E. Annie Proulx, U.S. writer, journalist
(1935)
Full name: Edna Annie Proulx.