"If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write."

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Source : Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

Lorrie Moore

#Writing Quotes #Creating Quotes #Records Quotes

“When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”

Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.42, Oxford University Press
“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
“Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.”
“Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.”
“Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.”

Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.
“Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it.”
“I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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