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Heidi Julavits has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability…
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A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness…
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I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people…
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I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world?…
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I…
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Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does…
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and…
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I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual.…
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I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point…
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I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I…
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A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these…
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I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as…
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The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that…
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We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait…
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It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are…
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Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
— Robert Genn
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The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
— Michael Moore
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and…
— Heidi Julavits
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but…
— Barbara Mertz
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was…
— Ned Vizzini
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to…
— Anne Carson
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Someone so mean, ruse and distasteful, I dont know why they like you. There is something wrong with their eyes.
— Unknown Author
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