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Francine Prose Quote: “I’ve always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though it also doles out praise, the workshop most often focuses on what a writer has done wrong, what needs to be fixed, cut, or augmented. Whereas reading a masterpiece can inspire us by showing us how a writer does something brilliantly.”

51. “I’ve always thought that a close-reading course should at least be a companion, if not an alternative, to the writing workshop. Though it also doles out praise, the workshop most often focuses on what a writer has done wrong, what needs to be fixed, cut, or augmented. Whereas reading a masterpiece can inspire us by showing us how a writer does something brilliantly.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “But did I ever get over her? She came to symbolize everything I wanted and would never have.”

52. “But did I ever get over her? She came to symbolize everything I wanted and would never have.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “In part what made the club such a haven was its power to make each person feel temporarily less alone.”

53. “In part what made the club such a haven was its power to make each person feel temporarily less alone.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class – or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”

54. “Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class – or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Staying awake seemed like a gift until, as so often happens with gifts, it became a burden.”

55. “Staying awake seemed like a gift until, as so often happens with gifts, it became a burden.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.”

56. “Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there are none.”

57. “Literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there are none.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters and good Sancerre, and that Marxist paralysis when the waiter brought the check. Already it’s obvious how much the Communists got wrong, overbetting on human high-mindedness, lowballing human desire.”

58. “He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters and good Sancerre, and that Marxist paralysis when the waiter brought the check. Already it’s obvious how much the Communists got wrong, overbetting on human high-mindedness, lowballing human desire.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “I discovered how reading a book can make you want to write one.”

59. “I discovered how reading a book can make you want to write one.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let’s imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.”

60. “Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let’s imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “That’s the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.”

61. “That’s the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Yvonne had created this place for her and for others like her: born into the wrong life, the wrong body, an innocent victim of God’s mistake.”

62. “Yvonne had created this place for her and for others like her: born into the wrong life, the wrong body, an innocent victim of God’s mistake.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.”

63. “If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other’s babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet?”

64. “Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other’s babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet?”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “All of us have observed how often our erotic attractions reflect a mysterious but consistent taste, almost as if we were ordering a favorite dish.”

65. “All of us have observed how often our erotic attractions reflect a mysterious but consistent taste, almost as if we were ordering a favorite dish.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “If I were like Lionel, I would write a book: Obvious Lies, Bad Advice, and Wrong Information I’ve Gotten from Men. A book? An encyclopedia! But in this case my friend was right.”

66. “If I were like Lionel, I would write a book: Obvious Lies, Bad Advice, and Wrong Information I’ve Gotten from Men. A book? An encyclopedia! But in this case my friend was right.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Yes to it all. I had become a puppy that stands on its hind legs and barks when its master fetches its leash.”

67. “Yes to it all. I had become a puppy that stands on its hind legs and barks when its master fetches its leash.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “How ashamed most of us would be, if we were reminded of some past behavior, some attitude that we maintained while under the delusion that we were in love – and were loved in return.”

68. “How ashamed most of us would be, if we were reminded of some past behavior, some attitude that we maintained while under the delusion that we were in love – and were loved in return.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “I was trying to communicate – with nothing so obvious as a smile, but let’s say a smile of the eyes – my admiration for the chic of women in tuxedos escorting women in evening gowns.”

69. “I was trying to communicate – with nothing so obvious as a smile, but let’s say a smile of the eyes – my admiration for the chic of women in tuxedos escorting women in evening gowns.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Anne tells him that his silence is, in a way, like her chatter.”

70. “Anne tells him that his silence is, in a way, like her chatter.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Maybe real love is being able to ask, Do I have greens in my teeth?”

71. “Maybe real love is being able to ask, Do I have greens in my teeth?”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?”

72. “One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.”

73. “A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn’t known enough to ask.”

74. “I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn’t known enough to ask.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “From the beginning, he’d understood what every three-year-old knows: that the vague threat is way scarier than knowing how much trouble, exactly, you’re facing.”

75. “From the beginning, he’d understood what every three-year-old knows: that the vague threat is way scarier than knowing how much trouble, exactly, you’re facing.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren’t.”

76. “One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren’t.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “Once we know that something turned out all right, that we navigated a rough patch more or less intact, it becomes harder to pity our younger self or remember the grief and confusion, the dread of the disaster that didn’t happen, the panic of the deer frozen in the headlights of the car that stopped in time.”

77. “Once we know that something turned out all right, that we navigated a rough patch more or less intact, it becomes harder to pity our younger self or remember the grief and confusion, the dread of the disaster that didn’t happen, the panic of the deer frozen in the headlights of the car that stopped in time.”

— Francine Prose

Francine Prose Quote: “After all, she’d written a book, for which she deserved some respect, though not as much as she would have if The Vixen were better.”

78. “After all, she’d written a book, for which she deserved some respect, though not as much as she would have if The Vixen were better.”

— Francine Prose

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