"Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging.……" — Mary Karr
"Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging."
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57 Quotes by Mary Karr
Mary Karr has 57 quotes on this site.
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Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and…
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If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it…
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in…
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last…
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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and…
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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people…
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first…
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More Aesthetically Quotes
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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
— Ben Barnes
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential…
— Kenneth Tynan
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
— Emile Chartier
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what…
— Aldo Leopold
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I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
— Suzanne Vega
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
— Karim Rashid
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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a…
— George Smoot
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious…
— Edith Schaeffer
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
— Edith Schaeffer
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I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it…
— Sam Maloof
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