Preintellectual Speech Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world. — Christian Wiman

It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further. — Natalie Goldberg

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. — Sarah Brady

Once upon a time in the Land of Sad, / a girl went on a journey. / She was not a princess, except to her mother... / Her father had vanished some tipsy moons ago, / kidnapped by the pirate Captain Smirnoff. — Susan Browne

Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same shortcoming - and I hope that, one of these days, someone will claim that my book, while it goes in a salutary expansive direction, doesn't go far enough, that there are assumptions I make that show I've missed aspects of Mann's irony and ambiguity. — Philip Kitcher

The naturalness of life ... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life. — Barbara Hepworth