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Life is a disease.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Life
Disease
Life Is
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Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Hope
Doe
Objects
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Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Ifs
Vocation
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Children
Race
Possesses
Powers
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Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Art
Discipline
Lifetime
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I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Book
Good Book
Ifs
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Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
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Actors
Body
Play
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Death
Dream
Daytime
Follow Your Dreams
Language
Mean
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Education
Inspirational
Learning
Thank You
Good
Teacher
Preparation
Pure
Teaching
Theatre
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Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Opportunity
Growth
People
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You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Bulbs
Cutting
Tired
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At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
People
Self
Self Absorption
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During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Knows
Writing
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Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Ready
Thinking
Writing
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How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
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Needs
People
Want
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Intense
Longing
Will Always More
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Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Success
Chance
Comfort
Flying
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If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Hope
Thinking
World
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Success
Lifetime
Preparation
Reality
None
Overnight
Preparations
Suddenly
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I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Believe
Enough
Practice
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Appreciation
Friendship
Smile
Appreciate
People
Premium
Taught
Experience People Who
Few People
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The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Character
Littles
Missions
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Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Time
Forever
Memories
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The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Focus
Infinite
Strange
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Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Danger
Young
Youth
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What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?
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Journey
Dust
Would Be
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The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Forward Motion
Found
Long
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I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.
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Dream
Believe
Dark
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I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Risk
Taken
Want
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I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Might
Shadow
Thinking
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I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . . and wonder: what is going to happen today? Will anything happen? Will the angel come today?
Gail Godwin / Novelist
Morning
Angel
Coffee
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There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.
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Moving Forward
Nice
Two
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