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Mavis Gallant Quotes

«She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.»
«I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.»
«[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.»
«The first flash of fiction arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image like a slide or closer still a freeze frame showing characters in a simple situation....»
Author: Mavis Gallant