Elaine Scarry Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.
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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
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Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
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Beauty always takes place in the particular.
