Mirrors Quotes - Page 34

• I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

  Carrie Brownstein

  People, Way, Blogging

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.

  Danielle Dutton

  Wall, People, Magic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.

  Danielle Dutton

  Tree, Littles, Tiny

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

  Noel Gallagher

  Honest, Intention, Music Business

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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Hate, Real

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• You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

  Shimon Peres

  Civilization, Invention, Knows

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• I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

  Liz Phair

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wedding, Dark, Perfect Days

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• Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Return, Greetings

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• How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

  Michelle Tea

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michelle Tea (2007). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext

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• You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Book

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• I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on top of her head- she lets her eyes look at my eyes- then she drops her hair and lets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold her speechlessly from the back my arm around her neck I touch her wrists and hands feel up to her elbows no further.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fall, Eye, Hair

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.304, Canongate Books

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• The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Gun

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• When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Book, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.388, Ballantine Books

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• You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing her of not appreciating or accepting me, when I should have been saying those words into a mirror.

  Jay Asher

  Mom, Should Have, Appreciate

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.188, Penguin

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• There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

  Stephen King

  Dark, Jekyll, Hyde

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• Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Eye, Secret

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• In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Real, Angel, Reflection

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• Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Practice, Skills

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.73, Workman Publishing

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• Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Writing, Strangers And Friends

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• The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Self, Mirages

  Paul Ricoeur, Denis Savage (2008). “Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation”, p.379, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Echoes, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.

  Holly Black

  Sweet, Love You, Kissing

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