Isak Dinesen Quotes
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Quotes to Explore
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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'Villain' is such a harsh word.
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If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
