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Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing."

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says."

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.




Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality."

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder."

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.




Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings"

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "I believe marriage is a spectator sport."

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days."

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.




Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary."

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Books remember all the things you cannot contain."

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior."

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable."

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick."

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.




Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were."

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask."

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints."

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas."

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story."

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers."

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor."

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'"

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human."

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium."

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did."

Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.



Elizabeth McCracken Quotes: "Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours."

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.