Lawrence Weschler Quotes
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.
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The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.
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I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
