Scarlett Thomas Quotes

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Scarlett Thomas

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• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Therapy

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Questions
  • Solution
  • Puzzle

• As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Long
  • Equality

• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Me

• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Day
  • Better
  • End

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Yourself
  • Seeing

• You are a good friend and we welcome you.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Good
  • Friend

• I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • School
  • Age
  • Guy

• My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Night
  • Sweet
  • Grandmother

• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Control

• I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.

  

  Al Roker

• I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Time
  • Work
  • Cool

• I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Nice
  • Hair
  • Needs

• Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Romance

• So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Writing
  • Position
  • Retain

• Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Waiting

• One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Prove