- Classic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always Quotes
Quotes on what stays constant.
These quotes describe things treated as constants - assuming a favorite team will always compete each season, or committing to always use one's art to elevate others. One even reflects candidly on always being honest about taxes. Related pages include Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which is always such a mixed bag of letters, recollections, and other data.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
- Dark Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020