"My greatest surprise was that so much of……" — Amy Bloom
"My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth."
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43 Quotes by Amy Bloom
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It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes…
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Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through…
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax…
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
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Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like…
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In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over,…
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Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy…
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I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb…
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Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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