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Koren Zailckas has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like…
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I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,…
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I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.
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I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years…
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I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their…
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But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut…
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Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole,…
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we…
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I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a…
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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing…
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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm…
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My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which…
— Matthew Arnold
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
— Byron Katie
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
— Anselm of Canterbury
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can…
— Colin Powell
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I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and…
— George Armstrong Custer
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God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less…
— John Mason Brown
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God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell…
— Anatole France
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
— Martial
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Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on…
— Matt Rees
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If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
— Chris Hayes
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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what…
— Julian Barnes
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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
— Khalil Gibran
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