Quotes - Seth Kupchick (goodreadscomseth_kupchick) (Seattle, WA) Showing 1-13 of 13

#1

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
― Pauline Kael

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#2

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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#3

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others

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#4

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

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#5

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: an-abundance-of-katherines, joh-green, nerdfighters

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#6

“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
― Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair

tags: lust, waiting

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#7

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#8

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: american-university, awesome, diversity, future, jfk, mortality, peace, planet, tolerance

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#9

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#10

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

tags: life

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#11

“A man is an angel that has gone deranged.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: absurd

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#12

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

tags: imitation, influence, inspiration

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#13

“Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un libro tiene que ser un hacha que rompa el mar de hielo que llevamos dentro.”
― Franz Kafka

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