List of Annie Proulx Quotes

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Annie Proulx
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the academy awards next year and pay attention to the independent spirit awards.
Smart Independent Years
Their silence comfortable. something unfolding. but what? not love, which wrenched and wounded. not love, which came only once.
Silence Unfolding Wounded
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. he let it go. the right line would come in time. that was the thing about poetry. it crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.
Writing Brain Let It Go
...all them things i don't know could get you killed if i come to know them
Brokeback Mountain Knows Ifs
And they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. within a mile ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. he stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. he felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.
Distance Hands Opposites
Wonderful ... i was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.
Reading Night Laughing
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
Believe Space Brokeback Mountain
It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
Dying Easier Dies
If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.
Light Darkness Ordinary
He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of brokeback mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.
Sweet Memories Real
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. and among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. were his fingers closing on that one?
Sweet Heart Eye
I would rather be dead than not read
  • Born: August 22, 1935
  • Occupation: Journalist
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