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Alice McDermott Quotes
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Guilt is glorious when it’s well earned (Alice McDermott Quotes)
The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me (Alice McDermott Quotes)
A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later (Alice McDermott Quotes)
I’m interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don’t (Alice McDermott Quotes)
Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures (Alice McDermott Quotes)
I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there (Alice McDermott Quotes)
A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility (Alice McDermott Quotes)
The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we’re gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure (Alice McDermott Quotes)