"You think you know yourself, the world. You……" — Sam Lipsyte
"You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?"
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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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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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They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the…
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I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a…
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Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always…
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The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
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I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are…
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Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
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I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on…
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead…
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