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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

Meghan O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

Topics

Writing World Way Always Sense Been

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Jennifer Morrison

Good Girl Truth Small Someone You

If you've never heard a piece of Mozart, then Mozart could sound scary or confusing, so it's all about learning.

Learning You Never Sound Scary Then

We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming.

Path Myself Direction Remember Same

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

Michel Foucault

Prison Army Crime Center Recruitment

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Janice Dickinson

Beauty Me Doors Know Deserve Things

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Donald Sutherland

Fire Someone You Bitterness Too Much

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Christopher McCandless

Freedom Alone Phone Pool Lost Land

Read everything. Ask your own questions. Be your own filter. Nobody is going to look at the world around you and tell you what important things are happening that affect you and the ones you love.

Chelsea Manning

Love World Questions You Look Ask

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life Women Children Creative Details

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Anthony Bourdain

Best Forward Interesting I Can Way

Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.

Failure Good Health Child People

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Arthur Middleton

Life God Freedom Death Find True

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