Deena Metzger Quotes
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
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Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.
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No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.
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The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.
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Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
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The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
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I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.
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Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
