Louise Glück Quotes
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I don't judge my characters.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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Technological progress - and it is a pity more do not appreciate it - is the one sound approach to increased employment and higher wages. There is no other way. Irrespective of what is being said to the contrary, new industries can be created, present industries can be expanded, unemployment can be eliminated in a practical way
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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
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I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.
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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
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I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer.
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I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.
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It does happen to be a historical fact that my husband served as president for eight years. And there's a lot that happened which helped the American people during those eight years. I want an economy that creates more jobs. And that's a lot of jobs. I want an economy that gets back to raising incomes for everybody.
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For our excess we lost everything.
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Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
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I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
