3 Quotes & Sayings By Irene Gut Opdyke

Irene Gut Opdyke is a writer and a professional editor. She was a regular columnist for Writer’s Digest magazine for ten years. She has also contributed to numerous publications, including Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Writer, Garden Design (and many others). She is the author of 24 books, including the bestselling "Bestseller Secrets" series Read more

Opdyke has been called "the modern-day Emily Post."

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In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance. Irene Gut Opdyke
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We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witnessed, and so we kept it safely guarded until the time we could bring it out, and show it to others, and say, 'Behold. This is the worst thing man can do'. Irene Gut Opdyke