Sloane Crosley Quotes

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• I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

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  Mother, Baby, Sex

  "I Was Told There'd Be Cake". Book by Sloane Crosley, books.google.ru. 2008.

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

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  School, Yearbook, Two

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.119, Portobello Books

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• Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

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  Reality, Tree, Brain

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• Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

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  Clapping

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.110, Portobello Books

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• No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

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  Simple, Affair, Ends

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.9, Portobello Books

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• If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

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  Love You, Being Single, Being Alone

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books

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• I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

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  Morning, Trying, Littles

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• Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

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  Want, Sometimes, Knows

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.73, Portobello Books

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• Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

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  Sleep, Towns, Imperfect

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.91, Portobello Books

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• In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.

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  Accessories, Stories, Certain

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• I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

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  Writing, Two, Voice

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now. I'll take a thorny rose and a "MOM" anchor, please. No, not that one--the big one.

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  Tattoo, Mom, Husband

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.120, Penguin

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• Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

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  Grateful, Wine, Youth

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.61, Portobello Books

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• I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

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  Travel, Thinking, Phones

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• Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

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  Heart, Vintage, People

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• I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

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  Phones, Cells, Tears

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin

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• My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

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  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.

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  Kids, Vaccines, People

  "Sloane Crosley on rubber animals and seeing through celebrity crushes". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

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  Karma, Natural Instinct, Helping

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.79, Portobello Books

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• I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

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  Lists, Reason, Get Up

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.134, Penguin

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• We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

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  Mean, Left, Deserve

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.110, Portobello Books

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• I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

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  Years, Noise, Refreshing

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books

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• Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

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  Country, Kids, Ideas

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.62, Portobello Books

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• You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

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  Keys, Pie, Tables

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• Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

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  Lesson Learned, Transition, Lessons

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