"Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word……" — Sam Lipsyte
"Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?"
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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 knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at…
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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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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the…
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty…
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that…
— Gloria Steinem
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I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things…
— Henry David Thoreau
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
— Anne Lamott
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It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people.…
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
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The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few…
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The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition.…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was…
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I don’t think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.
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