Danielle Dutton Quotes
I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working in some of that, but there were whole sections I'd written about these instruments that ultimately had to be abandoned when I realized that the book really was about Margaret Cavendish. I couldn't justify using all of them.
