Edmund de Waal Quotes
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
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She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to.
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At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.
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When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
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Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
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There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.
