"The stillness and stasis of bed are the……" — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
"The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead."
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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12 Quotes by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Lynne Sharon Schwartz has 12 quotes on this site.
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I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me…
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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
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How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and…
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In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
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What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to…
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Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
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Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted…
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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around,…
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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?
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Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs…
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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has…
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I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks…
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
— Michele Bachmann
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
— Antonio Banderas
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
— Djuna Barnes
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a…
— Lynda Barry
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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