Mary Gaitskill Quotes

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

Mary Gaitskill

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• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Know
  • Voice

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• If I have anything, it's tenacity.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Anything
  • Tenacity

• I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Long
  • Me
  • Desire

• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Lost
  • Better
  • Romantic

• Enthusiasm is something so positive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Positive
  • Enthusiasm

• When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Girl

• Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Trying
  • Job

• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Now
  • Kings
  • Fools

• Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Identity

• Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Friend

• I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Way

• Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Desire

• I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Life
  • Like
  • Social

• I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Prayer

• We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Great
  • Eyes
  • Church

• I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because they would make me a martyr. Our biggest fear was our children, because there was a tremendous amount of threat and intimidation, and my wife was terrified that the children might be grabbed or assaulted in some way. That was the real fear.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Children
  • Real

• Nowhere does one come to know an artist better than in his prints and the woodcut is the most graphic of the print processes.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Artist
  • Graphic
  • Prints

• Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

  

  Mary Gaitskill