Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

• Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Tree, Immortality

  Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume

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• Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Letters, Underestimate, Wells

  "The Jane Austen Book Club". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

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  Arriving, Way, Punctuality

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.163, Penguin

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• I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

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  Self, Found, Stills

  Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

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  Stars, Sunset

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.36, Serpent's Tail

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• In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

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  Important, Phrases, Humans

  Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.104, Penguin

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• When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

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  Elephants, Rooms, Invisible

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.135, Serpent's Tail

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• The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

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  Gone, Way, Saying Nothing

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.126, Serpent's Tail

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• In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

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  Taken, People

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.271, Serpent's Tail

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• When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

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  Running, Book, Long

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.273, Serpent's Tail

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• I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

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  Dolphins, Definitions, Corporations

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.305, Serpent's Tail

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• I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

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  Mistake, Sometimes, Wonder

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.240, Serpent's Tail

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• In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

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  Special, Likes, Mystery

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.213, Penguin

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• Each of us has a private Austen.

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  Austen

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.1, Penguin

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• Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

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  Matter, Succeed, Failing

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.288, Serpent's Tail

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• Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

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  Believe, Layers, My Family

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.20, Serpent's Tail

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• The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

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  Memories, Mean, Doe

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• No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Utopía

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• Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

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  June, People, Mad

  Karen Joy Fowler (2012). “Sarah Canary”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

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  Parent, Wish, Easier

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• There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

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  Character, Thinking, Finding Love

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• Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Fighting, Space, Plot

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.193, Penguin

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• You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

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  Prayer, Book, Believe

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• A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Men, Sometimes, Turns

  Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume

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• Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Men, Taught, Cheat

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