Rachel Cusk Quotes
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.
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There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.
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Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
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The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are taking a very strong view after a period of time, I think, where people fell asleep on politics to a certain extent.
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A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
