Quotes by Edith Pearlman - Page 1

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Corner
Saul
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Anecdote
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It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.
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Important
Quiet
Unnoticed
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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Mute
Remarkable
Tony
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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Aging
Ordinary
Future Past Your
Alter
Clarify
Experiences
Present
View
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I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?
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Hours
Sentences
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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Miserable
Society People Know
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Ambition
Buried
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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Creative Life
Devoted
Readership
Reinforcement
Satisfied
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Warm
Cellar
Furnace
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Bleak
Careful
Devoted
Natural World
Prophetic
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I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Companionship
Decency
Romance
Skepticism
Life Believe I Believe
Life Believe Long
Long Run
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In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as preparing students thoroughly for academic work.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Academic
Preparing
Self Esteem
Sole
High Schools
Mission
Thoroughly
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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Conventional
Typewriter
Gratifying
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Architecture
Arresting
Beam
Derelict
Setting
Cathedral
Occasionally
Post
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Longevity
Luck
Due
Literary
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Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.
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Book
Drinking
Reading
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I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Good Writing
Hindrance
Tempting
Typewriter
Re-Examine
Thus
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The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.
Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer
Active
Invention
Springs
Mineral
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