"I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion.……" — Kate Braverman
"I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen."
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17 Quotes by Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman has 17 quotes on this site.
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To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
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All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
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The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution…
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All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do…
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Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke.…
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
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In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
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Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
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I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line…
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Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can…
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More Aliens Quotes
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one of 646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
— Russell Baker
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
— Aeschylus
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
— Orson Scott Card
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
— Pamela Anderson
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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