Charles Reznikoff Quotes
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbish
Quotes to Explore
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
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It's fear that makes an act courageous.
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I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.
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I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.
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Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.
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I was always a junk food person, still am.
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If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
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There may not be a great job for Aboriginal people but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
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The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.
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An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbish
