"I know California isn't a real destination. You……" — Kate Braverman
"I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had."
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17 Quotes by Kate Braverman
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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 believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the…
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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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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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