Elizabeth Benedict famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.
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Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.
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You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.
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If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do.
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I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.
-- Elizabeth Benedict
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abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear that man who fears not God.
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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