Annie Proulx - Quoyle Quotes

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He [Quoyle] did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.

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All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.

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Quoyle, you got any maritime connections?' 'My grandfather was a sealer.' 'Jesus. You always come out at me out of left field.

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Quoyle large, white, stumbling along going nowhere

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The editorial page played streams of invective across the provincial political scene like a fire hose. Harangues, pitted with epithets. Gammy bird was a hard bite. Looked life right in its shifty, bloodshot eye. A tough little paper. Gave Quoyle an uneasy feeling, the feeling of standing on a playground watching others play games whose rules he didn't know.

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Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life

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The old place of the Quoyles, half ruined, isolated, the walls and doors of it pumiced by stony lives of dead generations. The aunt felt a hot pang. Nothing would drive them out a second time.

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Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering... In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.

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