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To make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

Marianne Wiggins

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same—fleeting and unknowable—for every one of us. I lived.

Marianne Wiggins

Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn't like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can't use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

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What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

Marianne Wiggins

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

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You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins

Born: September 8, 1947 (age 77)

Bio: Marianne Wiggins is an award-winning American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

Known for:

Evidence of Things Unseen (2003)
The Shadow Catcher (2007)
John Dollar (1989)
Eveless Eden (1995)
Almost Heaven (1998)

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