--- title: "1 Culture Maybe Quotes By Lily King" description: "1 Culture Maybe quotes by Lily King. Plus more from Lily King and more Culture Maybe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34a/lily-king-10967_culture_i-search-for-in-my-work-in-these-far-flu_2360724.jpg" --- > [“I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to BE in whatever way they need to be. And maybe I will never find it all in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-search-for-in-my-work-in-these-far-flung-places-to-find-a-group-of/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34a/lily-king-10967_culture_i-search-for-in-my-work-in-these-far-flu_2360724.jpg) ## More by Lily King > [“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/and-this-led-to-another-round-of-mapping-as-we-separated-men-from/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/when-i-finished-graduate-school-the-first-george-bush-was-president/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/when-i-pick-up-a-pencil-that-this-is-a-rough-draft-this-is-not-going/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-didn-t-major-in-anthropology-in-college-but-i-do-feel-i-had-an/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-m-very-interested-in-the-way-people-interact-emotionally/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/mind-nell-was-writing-ornamentation-of-neck-wrists-fingers-paint-on/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-have-three-stepfamilies-as-well-as-my-family-of-origin-i-ve-had-to/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/perhaps-all-science-is-merely-self-investigation/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/every-fictional-thing-i-wrote-gave-me-strength-to-write-another-and/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life? -I don't think we ever talk about anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/can-we-have-one-day-when-we-don-t-have-to-talk-about-the-meaning-of/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/ever-since-high-school-i-ve-been-writing-in-a-spiral-notebook-in/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/there-are-certain-tribes-in-the-middle-sepik-that-eat-raw-bat-a/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/you-have-so-much-to-offer-she-was-often-told-as-if-she-had-a-tray-of/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [“Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/was-it-possible-in-any-relationship-to-not-disappoint-to-do-anything/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) > [I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-king/i-love-this-idea-of-trying-to-create-that-intellectual-eroticism-that/) [Lily King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lily-king/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture-maybe/lily-king/#itemlist", "name": "1 Culture Maybe Quotes By Lily King", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to BE in whatever way they need to be. And maybe I will never find it all in one culture, but maybe I can find parts of it in several cultures, maybe I can piece it together like a mosaic and reveal it to the world. Bu the world is deaf. 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