"We live in a culture that wants to……" — Claire Messud
"We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think my goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?"
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Claire Messud
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26 Quotes by Claire Messud
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As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every…
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Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles…
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Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none…
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And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world…
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It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin…
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Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
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Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly…
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If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
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To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.
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I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring…
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More Anger Quotes
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
— Aristotle
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the…
— Aristotle
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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