Mary Gaitskill Quotes
I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.
Mary Gaitskill
Quotes to Explore
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
T. S. Eliot
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Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.
Vannevar Bush
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We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
Camille Paglia
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If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.
Larry Holmes
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Dust had dimmed only a fraction, not enough. Decay had brushed with its rotten fingers not nearly all it should. It was an enchanted sweet, stuck in the throat of time.
Tanith Lee
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I don't think there is rivalry between the teams in Brazil. We each do our jobs, and we each have our part in MMA.
Anderson Silva
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I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.
Anushka Sharma
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When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.
Drew Houston
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I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.
Kayla Tausche
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The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.
Mark Zuckerberg
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I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.
Mary Gaitskill