"I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher”, p.629, Open Road Media

Hortense Calisher

#Poetry Quotes #Nuisance Quotes #Solace Quotes

“Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.”
“What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.”
“I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.”
“I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.”

Source : "Peta Wilson's Verbal Seduction" by Tyler Cabot, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.”
“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.”
“When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.”
“Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.”

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