Carol Bly Quotes
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
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If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
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One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.
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For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.
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literature is the record of our discontent.
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Sat celeriter fieri, quidquid fiat satis bene.
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
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An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
