Mary Gaitskill Quotes
Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
Quotes to Explore
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.
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The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.
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Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince themselves that it's true.
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
