"This country was built on the backs of……" — Sam Lipsyte
"This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them."
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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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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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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
— Roger Babson
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags…
— Lake Bell
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart…
— Maya Angelou
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People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is…
— Paul Reiser
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands…
— Mark Twain
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
— Janet Morris
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink…
— Aristotle
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner…
— Rajneesh
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We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.
— Howard Schultz
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People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you…
— Unknown Author
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