Germaine Greer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.
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The power of art can open our minds.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
