Harriet Doerr Professions : AuthorBorn : April 8, 1910Died : November 24, 2002 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Harriet Doerr During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end. Harriet Doerr riverslittleslife One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory. Harriet Doerr imaginationagememories I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it. Harriet Doerr phrasesstoneswriting I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves. Harriet Doerr squaresrainmemories memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit. Harriet Doerr fitbottlesmemories You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it. Harriet Doerr wasteregrettime The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home." Harriet Doerr spokesminuteshome Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson authorAll Authors
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