Wendell Berry Quotes
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
Jack Antonoff
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Tamsin Greig
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
Imelda Staunton
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
Quincy Jones
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I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.
Jay McInerney
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I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
Jim Fowler
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Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Jeanne Moreau
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Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
