Nell Zink Quotes
In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
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I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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Woman are complex creatures.
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In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
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I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.
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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
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When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
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To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
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If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.
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In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.
