"Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace." — Amy Waldman
"Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace."
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33 Quotes by Amy Waldman
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Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
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In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
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The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like…
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Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become…
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My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and…
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More Commonplace Quotes
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
— Samuel Butler
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick…
— George Carlin
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and…
— Jean Cocteau
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very…
— William J. Clinton
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
— Blaise Pascal
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
— William James
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial…
— Cesare Pavese
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Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may…
— Samuel Smiles
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned…
— Christopher Fry
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