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What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Blows Connection Continue Dead Even Heart Impossible Intelligence Interests Knows Life Lost Lost Love Love Me Past Return Shelter Something Time Whatever Yearn

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Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: About Always Authors Because Books Clean Inside Interior Know Life Little Matters Meet Place Publishing Read Reading Room Sheltered State Talk Those Timeless Us Where Who Wonder Word Written Written Word

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I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Always Believed Categorized Experience Find Go Human Human Experience Literature Shared You

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I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Conscious Epic Make Ordinary Out Small Something Trying Very

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I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Coastal Diego Felt Grew Island Just Lived Long Long Island Me Person Pittsburgh Place San San Diego Up

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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Exile Family First Generations Immigrant People Shelter Structure Who

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I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Am Buying Cell Cell Phone Charming Children Constantly Cultivate Eccentricity Notion Phone Trying I Am

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I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Bit Bottle Little Little Bit Lot Nonfiction Poetry Read Savor Shot Think Time Whiskey Whole Wine I Think

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My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: About Catholic Catholic School Children Education Even Gone Inner Inner Life Life Looking Mortality Obligations Only Part School Talking Thinking Though Value Whole You Your

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I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Because Believe Catholics Examined Faith Interior Language Life People Same Us Who I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 27th, 1953

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