Mary Gaitskill Quotes
I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
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We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred.
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There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
