"Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence……" — Stacy Schiff
"Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book."
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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site.
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It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce…
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No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I…
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit…
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started…
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library…
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…
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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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