- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we've been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They're afraid of happiness because they think we'll stagnate or we'll be blind: that if I'm happy now, I won't keep fighting as hard. If I'm happy now, I won't push as hard to make a better world. That's what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling the world can be an amazing - and even better - a happy experience. You just have to do it the right way.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never hate my bullies from high school. I actually kind of appreciate them. If it wasn't for that boot camp training of how the world treats gay people and especially drag queens, I don't know if I would have survived as well as I have.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been my aim to live everyday like Halloween by celebrating individuality and creative freedom within a world of horror.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
- Conjure
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020