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Margaret Laurence
Author profile
born
in Neepawa, Canada
July 18, 1926
died
January 05, 1987
gender
female
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The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence, Adele Wiseman — published 1964 — 31 editions |
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The Diviners
by Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) — published 1974 — 16 editions |
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A Bird in the House
— published 1963 — 16 editions |
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A Jest of God
by Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) — published 1966 — 15 editions |
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The Fire-Dwellers
— published 1969 — 10 editions |
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This Side Jordan
— published 1960 — 6 editions |
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The Tomorrow-Tamer
— published 1963 — 6 editions |
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The Olden Days Coat
by Margaret Laurence, Muriel Wood — published 1979 — 5 editions |
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The Prophet's Camel Bell
— published 2010 — 5 editions |
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Dance on the Earth: a Memoir
— published 1989 — 2 editions |
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“So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life, for there is none, or any wisdom except the passionate plea of caring ... Try to feel, in your heart's core, the reality of others. This is the most painful thing in the world, probably, and the most necessary. In times of personal adversity, know that you are not alone. Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all of your fellow humans everywhere in the world. Know that your commitment is above all to life itself.”
― Margaret Laurence
― Margaret Laurence
“What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers
― Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers
“Where I'm going, anything may happen. Nothing may happen. Maybe I will marry a middle-aged widower, or a longshoreman, or a cattle-hoof-trimmer, or a barrister or a thief. And have my children in time. Or maybe not. Most of the chances are against it. But not, I think, quite all. What will happen? What will happen. It may be that my children will always be temporary, never to be held. But so are everyone's.
I may become, in time, slightly more eccentric all the time. I may begin to wear outlandish hats, feathered and sequinned and rosetted, and dangling necklaces made from coy and tiny seashells which I've gathered myself along the beach and painted coral-pink with nail polish. And all the kids will laugh, and I'll laugh, too, in time. I will be light and straight as any feather. The wind will bear me, and I will drift and settle, and drift and settle. Anything may happen, where I'm going.”
― Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God
I may become, in time, slightly more eccentric all the time. I may begin to wear outlandish hats, feathered and sequinned and rosetted, and dangling necklaces made from coy and tiny seashells which I've gathered myself along the beach and painted coral-pink with nail polish. And all the kids will laugh, and I'll laugh, too, in time. I will be light and straight as any feather. The wind will bear me, and I will drift and settle, and drift and settle. Anything may happen, where I'm going.”
― Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God
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