Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel (1964)

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Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

Margaret Laurence

Some people will tell you that the old live in the past... such people as Marvin, who is somehow comforted by the picture of old ladies feeding like docile rabbits on the lettuce leaves of other times, other manners.

Margaret Laurence

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

Margaret Laurence

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Margaret Laurence

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

Margaret Laurence

Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

Margaret Laurence