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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Aging Alter Clarify Experiences Future Ordinary Past Present View Your

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I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Believe Companionship Decency Important Life Long Long Run More Romance Run Skepticism Toward I Believe I Believe That

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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Come Heard Met Some Someone Stories Write I Write

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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Alone Break Conventional Day Ever Find Gratifying Half Life Long Rule Sit Typewriter Want Wanted I Can

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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Always Creative Creative Life Devoted Had Life Quite Readership Reinforcement Satisfied Small

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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Always Cellar Furnace Had Needed Number Private Space Warm Wrote Years

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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Memory Mute Prison Remarkable Tony Written

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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Always Due Literary Literature Longevity Loved Luck Part Physical Project Read Wanted

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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Know Lot Miserable People Single Society Supposed Tells Them Who

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I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Because Computer Every Good Good Writing Hindrance Leave Make Mistake Must Tempting Think Thus Typewriter Use Word Writing Written You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 26th, 1936

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