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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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.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
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I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.
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War is over if you want it.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.
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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.
