Carolyn Kizer Quotes
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
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My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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What else will you have? Nice banana and bacon sandwich?
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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I have a lot of books I want to write.
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The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
