Mary Gaitskill Quotes
It's true that your environment influences how you write.
Mary Gaitskill
Quotes to Explore
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
Narendra Modi
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If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.
Dan Gilbert
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
Fedor Emelianenko
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
Valerie Plame
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
Dan Pallotta
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
Hamza Yusuf
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
Dan Buettner
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Kate Forsyth
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber
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And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
Norton Juster
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
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I knew very early on that I was not pretty. No one ever called me pretty. It was not the go-to adjective people used to describe me.
Janet Mock
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..we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves. So that, then we go down, what is it that is despicable in ourselves? And there are some elements despicable in ourselves, which we don't want to look at, but which are part of our natures, that we are mortal.
Jean Vanier
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It's true that your environment influences how you write.
Mary Gaitskill
