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Steven Millhauser Quotes

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

Steven Millhauser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1943

Topics

Fear Child You Seeing Dark Things

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

Family Water People Survive Help

I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't necessarily come and see a film like 'Weekend.'

People Weekend Gay Know See Film

An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.

Power Purpose Cold Rest Facts Moral

When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.'

Walk You Living Out Film Been

Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that they say is a challenge to you but there's something to be said for reading people where you think, 'Yes, that's how I would have said it if I could have found the words for it'.

Challenge Words People Reading Think

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth Happy Be Happy Lying Outside

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Pain Speak Think Us Enduring Until

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Book Deep Reach You Down Know

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

Art School High School Design High

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Leadership Care Enough Result You

I never do anything that doesn't feel natural to me. I wake up in the morning and I know what to put on - it's my sixth sense, really.

Poppy Delevingne

Morning Me Wake Up Feel Know Never

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

Life Dreams Struggle School Think

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