Mavis Gallant - People Quotes

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I don't think life is sad. I think the difficulties between people are sad and inevitable, but I don't think I would ever begin by thinking I'm going to write something sad and make people miserable. I just think I'm going to write something funny. There's always something that makes me laugh.

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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

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