Germaine Greer Quotes
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.
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The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.
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We got lucky, it's as simple as that. You win some, you lose some. I've seen that shot by Smith go in many, many times, and we got lucky because we made an error in coverage.
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I just don't see why you are picking at him. He answered the question.
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
