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Author - Alice McDermott
Quotes by : Alice McDermott
coming of age
It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried....
romance
In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary....
World
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being....
Church
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first....
Parents
I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My....
love
It made it easier that they both believed in the simplest kind of afterlife - that my father could say....
family
But Mrs. Meany, see, the women went on, leaning forward, despite how her heart was broken, pulled herself....
Love
What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence....
Think
I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I....
Soul
Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as....
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