Phyllis Rose Quotes

• There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

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  Acceptance, Judging, Neutrality

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• When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?

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  Truth, Happy Life, Doe

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• More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.

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  Appreciation, Dark, Vocabulary

  Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan

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• the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

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  Art, Challenges, Nonfiction

  Phyllis Rose (1993). “The Penguin book of women's lives”, Viking Canada

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• The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

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  Women, Literature, Life Is

  Phyllis Rose (1993). “The Penguin book of women's lives”, Viking Canada

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• an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

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  Promise, Needs, Hearing

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• Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Refusal

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• Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.

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  Women, Expectations, Achievement

  Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese

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• I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

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  Believe, Needs, Literature

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• biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

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  Two, Littles, Biographies

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• One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

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  Memories, Loneliness, Share

  Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese

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