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Alice McDermott Quotes

Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award[1] and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2]

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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.

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.

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 Tags: Life Education Children School Value
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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.

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.

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 Tags: Life Love Time Heart Past Me
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

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

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 Tags: Family People Immigrant First Exile
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I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

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

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 Tags: Experience Literature You Find Human
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I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.

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

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 Tags: Trying Small Epic Ordinary Something
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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.

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

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 Tags: Children I Am Cell Phone Trying
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