If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is. — Miranda July Feelings Copy Share Image
I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally… — Miranda July Circles Copy Share Image
We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't… — Miranda July Book Copy Share Image
“Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you’re misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell.” — Miranda July Sentimentality Copy Share Image
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to… — Miranda July Art Copy Share Image
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and… — Miranda July Funny Copy Share Image
I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just… — Miranda July Bridges Copy Share Image
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was… — Miranda July Animal Copy Share Image
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might… — Miranda July Anger Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Attention Copy Share Image
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that… — Miranda July Alive Copy Share Image
I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your… — Miranda July Big decisions Copy Share Image
“The rest of the house was perfectly in order, as it always is, thanks to my system. It doesn’t have a name—I… — Miranda July Dirty dishes Copy Share Image
“Once Carl had called me ginjo, which I thought meant “sister” until he told me it’s Japanese for a man, usually an… — Miranda July Fire Copy Share Image
I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and… — Miranda July Boredom Copy Share Image
“I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.” — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I… — Miranda July Art Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters. — Miranda July Friends Copy Share Image
Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers… — Miranda July Cry Copy Share Image
“I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and… — Miranda July Diary Copy Share Image
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