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Kathleen Norris era scrittore.

✵ 16. Luglio 1880 – 18. Gennaio 1966
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Kathleen Norris: 11 citazioni0 Mi piace

Kathleen Norris: Frasi in inglese

“I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,’ I feel I have succeeded.”

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Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her seventy-eighth book, as cited in: James Charlton. The Writer's quotation book. 1985. p. 34

“Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ”

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“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”

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“If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”

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“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening…. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.”

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“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”

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Origine: The Cloister Walk

“Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.”

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Home http://books.google.com/books?id=XEVKAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Home+ought+to+be+our+clearing+house+the+place+from+which+we+go+forth+lessoned+and+disciplined+and+ready+for+life%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage (1928)

“All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.”

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