Julie Orringer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
-- Julie Orringer

#Mean #Mit #Stones
I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
-- Julie Orringer

#Hate #People #God Love
It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
-- Julie Orringer

#Crumbling #Done #Complicated
Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?
-- Julie Orringer

#Responsibility #Men #Dust
And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.
-- Julie Orringer

#What If #Stories #Failing
Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.
-- Julie Orringer

#Practice #Hunger #Easier
There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.
-- Julie Orringer

#Love Is
The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
-- Julie Orringer

#Stones #Way #Sometimes
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.
-- Julie Orringer

#Book #Reading #Heart

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....
The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Julie Orringer famous quotes

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