Wouldn Quotes
394 quotes by 298 authors
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
— Alice Notley
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Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A…
— Michael Crummey
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But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them…
— Jonathan Evison
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I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.
— Roxane Gay
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I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that we’re going…
— Jon Foreman
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I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.
— Adrian Rogers
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Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
— Reynolds Price
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Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about…
— Nell Freudenberger
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I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing.…
— Kara Walker
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Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark,…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear…
— Muriel Bowser
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I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History…
— Henry Ford
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Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom…
— Monica Ali
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I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time.…
— David Wroblewski
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The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind…
— Matthew Polly
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If it had blown up, I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.
— Oil Can Boyd
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“Really, there are two types of people who go bowling. There are people who really, really love bowling. Then there are the people that are…
— Jim Gaffigan
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If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.
— Mary Wigman
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I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up, though. I definitely much…
— Kobe Bryant
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