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Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
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Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are…
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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed…
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,…
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James…
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Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would…
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After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human,…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and…
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but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love -…
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not…
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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead…
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying…
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It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!
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I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
— Elfriede Jelinek
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.
— Susan Sontag
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And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always…
— Elizabeth Olsen
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It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.
— Lois Lowry
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That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a…
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