Judith Butler Quotes
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Quotes to Explore
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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I never read about photography.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
