Kathryn Harrison Quotes

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.

Kathryn Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1961

Topics

WorkGoodMeBookPersonalBreak

I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

Jo Cox

YearEveryoneGonePackingWorking

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

HabitSunPeopleColdWorryYou

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

Matthew Rhys

CoolStretchAlongJustKidsReally

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

Steve Erickson

ResponsibilityPeopleStartBecome

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

FuturePastLostYoungDeadArts

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Rutger Hauer

GoodCharacterHeroMeBadPlay

Weak arms don't cause you to lose games. When you hit, be sure to get on base. Then no one will care about a weak arm.

Mickey Rivers

CareYouLoseGamesWillWeak

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Milton Friedman

GoodPowerHarmAlso

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

Lisa Lutz

MePrisonThinkHellSomeoneTrying

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

Jared Polis

PeopleMeThinkCareDoingLong

You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

Condoleezza Rice

YouUnderstandContextSuccessful

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

Connor Franta

BrainRealityHelpSometimesCapture

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