Rebecca Wells Quotes
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I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
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we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.
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Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
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These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.
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Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.
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Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.
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I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.
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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
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Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.
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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
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I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.
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It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.