Louise Penny Quotes
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
Quotes to Explore
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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When people tell stories that unite the community or the organization that they work for and illustrate the principles of that organization, those people rise in the social standing in that group. They rise in power.
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We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
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Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't afford. That's a reality.
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
