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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
But more than that, I wanted my wife and my family to see how I can actually play this game. They haven't seen me at my best, and I want them to.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It fell out of print almost everywhere. I wrote other books and, as an editor, worked on dozens more. Yet always, Lili stayed with me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.
- Harrowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020