Ben Fountain Quotes
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I have a very short attention span.
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It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
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The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
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... secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff.
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I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.
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After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
