Carol Bly Quotes

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Forever

• I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
  • Literature
  • Economics

• The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Literature

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Forever
  • Write
  • Will

• In 2007, my life changed forever. I signed on 'Tashan,' a full-on glamorous masala movie, with two of the hottest and fittest actors around: Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. And me, rising out of the sea like a Bond girl, wearing nothing but a green bikini. I had nightmares of how my love handles would be on display for the whole world to see.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Culture
  • You
  • Forever

• If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

  

  Sally Field
  • Forever
  • Back
  • Been

• To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wisdom

• This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Life
  • Home
  • Water

• There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Forever

• We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • America
  • Forever

• I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Math

• Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Forever

• Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Literature

• There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Women
  • Death
  • Powerful

• Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Men
  • Money
  • Mad

• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Nice

• The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Bible
  • Adventure
  • Choose

• The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

  

  Carol Bly
  • Forever
  • Literature
  • Secret