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Floyd Skloot Quotes

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 6, 1947

Topics

Life Observation Piercing Slim Brief

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

Women House White Strange Away Give

A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.

Childhood Child Calendar Coincidence

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

Sophie Kinsella

Time People Amazing Ideas Thinking

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

Funny Love People Me Writing Laugh

There are no rules in art.

Art Rules No Rules

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

Song Think Picture Someone Place

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

Dianne Feinstein

Life Marriage Me Body Debate Happen

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Truth Pain People Me Book Tough

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Problems Listen Finish Something

Whenever I'm interested in something, I make sure I'm really good at it.

Good Something Sure Make Interested

You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

Life Good Death You Human See

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Business Anger Kitchen Frustration

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