"I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak."

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Ann Beattie

#Thinking Quotes #Serious Quotes #Bleak Quotes

“You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire”
“If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.”
“I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.”
“I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.”
“At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.”
“Not believing in something doesn't make it not exist.”
“I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.”
“They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.”

Source : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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