Mallory Ortberg Quotes
When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
Mallory Ortberg
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
Madeline Kahn
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Otto Rank
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
Warren Rudman
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Naomi Klein
I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
Eden Sher
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
Abigail Spencer
There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
Rahm Emanuel
I'm a runner first before anything else.
Haile Gebrselassie
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
Taylor Swift
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.
Albertus Magnus
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx
When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
Mallory Ortberg
