"I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious……" — Koren Zailckas
"I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged."
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Koren Zailckas
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24 Quotes by Koren Zailckas
Koren Zailckas has 24 quotes on this site.
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For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the…
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I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my…
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I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.
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I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for…
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I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties…
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But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in…
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Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on…
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle,…
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I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer…
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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion"…
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My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for…
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My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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