Sloane Crosley Quotes - Page 5

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• I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

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  Running, Selfish, Thinking

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.99, Portobello Books

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• I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

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  Art, School, Good Day

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• There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

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  Emotional, Twenties, Paper

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• Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

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  Thank You, Crush, Girl

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• There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees.

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  Sweaters, Degrees, Coats

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• Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.

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  Love, Memories, Exit

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

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• I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

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  Break Up, One Day, Way

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

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  New York, Historical, Brain

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• I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

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  Numbers, Healthy, Records

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.67, Penguin

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• As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you ‘can only take in small doses.’

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  Growing Up, People, Like You

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• A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

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  Lonely, People

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• I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

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  Jobs, College, Accepted

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• Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

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  Two, Jumping, Cooking

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". Interview with Eric Klinenberg, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

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  People, Tree, Forests

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• I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

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  People, Decent, Knows

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• I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Calling

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

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  Maintenance, Pastries, Tarts

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• I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

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  Writing, Weekend, Vacation

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• Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.

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  Sex, Sleep, Forgiving

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.31, Penguin

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• At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

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  Years, Events, Calendars

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• Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.

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  Running, Mean, Knowing

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• Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

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  Athlete, Technology, Want

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• Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

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  Thug, Air, Tree

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.47, Penguin

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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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• Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

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  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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