"There's a limit to my patience with anything……" — Koren Zailckas
"There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet."
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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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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more…
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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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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's…
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a…
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
— Bill Bryson
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It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside…
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the…
— Samuel Butler
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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
— Tony Campolo
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
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