"She was fluent in four languages and yet……" — Anthony Marra
"She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat."
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27 Quotes by Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra has 27 quotes on this site.
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How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
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She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross…
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It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but…
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Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
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Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
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But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in…
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Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
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Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
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War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
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We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.
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He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of…
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Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
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More Articulation Quotes
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Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the…
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I…
— Richard Serra
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When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it…
— Rem Koolhaas
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A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
— John Baldessari
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean,…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to…
— Thomas Sowell
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The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on…
— Unknown Author
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The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
— Lance Morrow
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Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the…
— Lewis Hyde
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of…
— Parker Stevenson
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