Sarah Pinborough Quotes
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.
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A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver - in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
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There is only one thing that matters and that we'll remember. The rest doesn't matter. I don't care what life is to be nor what it does to us. But it won't break us. Neither you nor me. That's our only weapon. That's the only banner we can hold against all those others around us. That's all we have to know about the future.
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I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.
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Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
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Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
