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Anthea Butler Quotes

What often happens in a court of law is that, if victims do get their day in court, they are on trial as much as the perpetrators.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: August 6, 1956

Topics

Day Law Get Court Happens Trial

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

Work Love Best Stage Where Started

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Eyes Soul Me Windows Need Remind

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Day Famous Long Heroes Lived How

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

Good Knowledge Time Pain School

What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Steven Millhauser

World Repetition Way Become Dislike

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Boxing Bleed Smoky Halls Until

I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.

God Power Mind Control Because

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger Fall Ruins Like Those Which

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

Work Day Every Day Bear Garbage Us

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

Loudon Wainwright III

Funny Me Song Interesting You Kind

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

Growing Up Growing Jacket Bench Up

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Great Words Reality Well Known Foes

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