Emil Cioran Quotes
I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
Quotes to Explore
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.
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I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
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Art is good but it isn't the best.
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I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
