"It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly……" — Meg Wolitzer
"It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life."
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30 Quotes by Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer has 30 quotes on this site.
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The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until…
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I have never been much of a researcher
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Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.
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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse…
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The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
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The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.
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The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like…
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People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to…
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You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
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While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed…
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Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at…
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More Adapted Quotes
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one of 162 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
— Samuel Butler
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing…
— Roderick Murchison
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The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The…
— Elias Canetti
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought…
— John B. S. Haldane
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses!…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions…
— Unknown Author
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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