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Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1926 - October 9, 2003

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Life Impossible Know Risk Intimacy

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Funny Simple Words Conversation Know

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

Little Fabric Lunatic Little Bit Bit

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Struggle Cake Sweet World Think Way

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

Music Culture World Think Language

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Time Think Choose Choice Creating

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

You Nothing Talk Cocktail Mark

The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Daughter Beautiful Way Write Tone

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Book House Old Out Relatives Fans

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

Success Good Football Believe Bad

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Thought Die More Laughing Than

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Wisdom Quality You Need Where Keeps

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