"Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?"

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Source : Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

Clarice Lispector

#Being Yourself Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.”
“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”

Source : "Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100". Dissenting opinion, November 21, 1927.
“There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.”
“When we get to A League Of Their Own, I have to be Geena Davis' little sister who wants to be like her and wants everything that she has and is jealous and upset and mad. Well, that was easy. I mean, she has an Academy Award. I think I can be upset about that. She's 99 feet tall and she's drop-dead gorgeous and she's all feminine and pretty. I had to pretend I couldn't run as fast as her. That was hard.”
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
“There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.”
“All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.”

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