"Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish."

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Minna Antrim

#Eye Quotes #Dust Quotes #Devil Quotes

“It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so”
“All the world loves a clown.”
“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”
“Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.”
“Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.”
“Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!”
“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.”

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