Caryl Rivers Quotes
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.
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The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
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We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.
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Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
