Karen Russell Quotes
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.
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It will take at least one week for the Justice Department to arrive at a final conclusion on this matter. Therefore, the committee does not anticipate taking any actions with respect to Mrs. Rich for at least one week.
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As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!
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I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
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I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.
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I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.
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The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
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Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
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Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one.
