"And while I was not an admirer of……" — Elizabeth McCracken
"And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints."
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20 Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love 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…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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