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Mary Gaitskill Quotes

One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1954

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Time Man Night Restaurant Summer

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Criticism Learn You Take Give Get

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

Life Family Respect Job Fun People

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

Michael Ian Black

Community Jealousy Support Think

Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.

Robin Marantz Henig

Struggle Fat Down Keep Us Sabotage

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Father Mother Beginning Parents She

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Reading Friends Believing Farewell

Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them?

Government Stupid Care Take Care Bad

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Women God Flowers World Lovely Most

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Wisdom People Advice Admire Us Come

Every coach, when starting work at a new club, hopes to stay many, many years because it means you are working very well. You have the possibility to improve your players, to improve your team, and to grow together.

Work Together Team Grow You New

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.

Ocean Care Mindset Take Care Nothing

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

Love Live Love Is Thought Never

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