Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes - Page 3

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• Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Life, Self, Doubt

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• Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Book, Effort, Literature

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• Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Age, Fifty, Becoming

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• What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Writing, Reality, Stories

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• That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Use It Or Lose It, Insulting, Quotations

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• Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Names, Realist, Cynicism

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• as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Patience, Years, Rushing

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• New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  New York, People, London

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• It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Life, World, Safe

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