"I take the world very personally. I take……" — Marianne Wiggins
"I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context."
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16 Quotes by Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins has 16 quotes on this site.
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There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting…
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Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in…
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I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.
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What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that…
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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and…
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I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and…
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I will never turn to God.
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I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a…
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I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I…
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Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations…
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I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think…
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Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the…
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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to…
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and…
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much…
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making…
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