Karen Elizabeth Gordon Quotes

• Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Language

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Adventure, Pockets, Coins

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• A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Numbers, Personality, Doe

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• Killing time takes practice.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Time, Practice, Killing

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• Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Feelings, Intimate, Attire

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• We waltzed Lisztlessly.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Ballet

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• Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Mother, Time, Muggers

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Winter, Knitting, Wish

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Art, Looks, Way

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Missing, Statistics, Missing Something

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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