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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
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- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like down-to-earth people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Israel, but I don't like it very much.
- Brick
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- Nov 07, 2020