Ben Lerner Quotes
I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.Ben Lerner
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
Naomi Klein -
I so never went through a bad-girl period.
Maggie Siff -
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim -
I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
Gail Simmons -
I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
Warren Spector -
So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
Imogen Heap
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
Harold Ramis -
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
Laila Robins -
It's very liberating to cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson -
I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
Laura Marling -
Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
W. H. Auden -
'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'
Patrick Rothfuss
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
Alexander Cockburn -
'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shillingYour ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
Edward Lear -
I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
Anand Giridharadas -
I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
Mary Douglas -
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
Jason Bateman -
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
Bill Vaughan -
Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
C.P. Snow -
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
W. H. Auden -
I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.
Ben Lerner