“Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing…Other accounts are required, other perspectives.“
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
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“The larger loneliness in our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always dampening down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals."
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (translation in progress)
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“The larger loneliness in our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always dampening down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals."
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (translation in progress)
#literarytranslation
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