Merrill Markoe Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Celebrity Gossip, Culture, Care

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I care about being creative and productive.

  Merrill Markoe

  Creative, Care, Productive

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.

  Merrill Markoe

  Writing, Years, Effort

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.

  Merrill Markoe

  Grateful, Way, Fortunate

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

  Merrill Markoe

  Might, Lists, Truth Is

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

  Merrill Markoe

  Past, People, Behavior

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

  Merrill Markoe

  Echoes, Childhood, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Thinking, Elements

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

  Merrill Markoe

  Men, Listening, Doe

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• A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

  Merrill Markoe

  Issues, Guy, Bigs

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• my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Taste, Facts

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• Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

  Merrill Markoe

  Men, Shy, Way

  Merrill Markoe (1994). “How to be Hap-hap-happy Like Me”, Viking Press

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• We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Home, Intelligent

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

  Merrill Markoe

  Sports, Gun, Fields

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

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  Guitar, Play, Guy

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• It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

  Merrill Markoe

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Magic

  Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.85, Villard

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• They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Father, Soul

  Merrill Markoe (2007). “It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel”, p.8, Villard

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• our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.

  Merrill Markoe

  Girl, Running, Boys

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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