Claire Messud Quotes
It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
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I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how peoples live in cities, how peoples anywhere manage to co-exist, the public life and the private life.
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It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.
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When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.
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A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
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It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
