Disadvantages Quote by Ann Beattie

“I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.” quote by Ann Beattie — Download Open image

“I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.”

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Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our…

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If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

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“This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with her lover in the country. This, of course, is the barest outline, and futile to discuss. It’s as pointless as throwing birdseed on the ground while snow still falls fast. Who expects small things to survive…

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“This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with her lover in the country. This, of course, is the barest outline, and futile to discuss. It’s as pointless as throwing birdseed on the ground while snow still falls fast. Who expects small things to survive…

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There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be…

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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not…

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Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't…

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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's…

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The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…

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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness…

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I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and…

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the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

Margaret Halsey