Quotes - Matt (mpettengill) (Auburn, ME) Showing 1-30 of 105

#1

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#2

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#3

“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
― Edith Wharton

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#4

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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#5

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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#6

“When I am wicked I am in high spirits.”
― Henry James, The Europeans

tags: wicked

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#7

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
― Henry James, The art of fiction

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#8

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, self-actualization, self-image

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#9

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

tags: equality, feminism, women

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#10

“A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
― Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Poems

tags: existence, meaning, poetry, purpose, universe

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#11

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people

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#12

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

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#13

“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
― Maya Angelou

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#14

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

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#15

“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: life, life-experience

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#16

“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

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#17

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: discrimination, humor, self-assurance, self-worth

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#18

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

tags: writing

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#19

“I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together”
― Billy Collins

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#20

“Vade Mecum

I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.”
― Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

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#21