- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
- Errand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.
- Eternity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020