Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
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Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.
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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
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Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.
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The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
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Everyone has their own Everest to climb
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I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
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The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.
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With a heavy load and a long journey.
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I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.
