Author: Carolyn Chute

Quotes

That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

- Carolyn Chute

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

- Carolyn Chute

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

- Carolyn Chute

My people are mostly underweight or overweight - however it is they turned out, like good bread. Bring back the hunched-over people... Bring back humanity.

My people are mostly underweight or overweight - however it is they turned out, like good bread. Bring back the hunched-over people... Bring back humanity.

- Carolyn Chute

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

- Carolyn Chute

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

- Carolyn Chute

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

- Carolyn Chute

We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.

We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.

- Carolyn Chute

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