"I knew I was in the vicinity of……" — Sam Lipsyte
"I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it."
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21 Quotes by Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte has 21 quotes on this site.
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Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.
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I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing…
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I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure…
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Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.
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You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about…
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This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.
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The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.
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People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out…
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Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.
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No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat…
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When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities…
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There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of…
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More Craven Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic…
— John Berger
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It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or…
— Edwin Way Teale
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You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and…
— David Bowie
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I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of…
— Unknown Author
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At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to…
— Hugh Nibley
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
— Peggy Noonan
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Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
— Henry Winkler
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I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can…
— Edward Forbes
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Calculated and craven political stunt.
— Tom DeLay
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What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of…
— Matt Taibbi
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