Judith Thurman Quotes

• A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

  Judith Thurman

  Mad, Mad Person, Visionaries

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• Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

  Judith Thurman

  Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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• We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

  Judith Thurman

  Way, Chance, One Life To Live

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• And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

  Judith Thurman

  Careers, Lessons, May

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• If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

  Judith Thurman

  World, Sentences, Translations

  "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Wine, Sobriety, Alcohol

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• Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

  Judith Thurman

  Luxury, Insecurity

  Judith Thurman (2008). “Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

  Judith Thurman

  Fashion, Sisterhood, Long

  "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

  Judith Thurman

  Art, Family Life, Monument

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• The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

  Judith Thurman

  Editing, Editors, Borders

  "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

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• As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.

  Judith Thurman

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

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• Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

  Judith Thurman

  People, Simplicity, Political

  "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

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• This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

  Judith Thurman

  Summer, Art, Lying

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