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Gabrielle Hamilton

"The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up â€¦ then down â€¦ then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. Itâ€™s a tired reading style. Iâ€™m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselvesâ€”as theyâ€™ve been arrangedâ€”could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name."

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.104, Random House

Gabrielle Hamilton

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“It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.”
“I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am unable to care for myself.”
“Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.”

Source : Deniece Schofield (1994). “Confessions of an organized homemaker: the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life”
“I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.”
“Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.”
“My life may be encapsulated by one of Graham Greene's "entertainments" titles: 'Loser Takes All'. Since I was thrown out of highschool for political reasons, I was free to study on my own and develop my own ways of thinking.”
“It seems that the Internet is setting the standard for almost everything. I can't imagine having something like punk rock happen where an entire culture is doing one thing. It's not like all the kids in England are discovering the Stooges and the Ramones at the same time. All the kids in England are discovering every band that has ever existed. I can't imagine there being one huge cultural moment like there was in the past. Everything ends up being kind of postmodern.”
“Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.”

Source : Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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