Top 30 Deborah Smith Quotes
#1. A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land.
I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.
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#2. We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.
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#3. It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it.
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#4. Their mystique comes from the fact that, once upon a time, someone cared enough to hide them.
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#5. There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy
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#7. And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.
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#8. What do you call love, then? Someone I can't live without.
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#9. I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.
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#10. All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.
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#11. Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
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#12. I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.
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#13. I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.
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#14. But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful.
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#16. The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22
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#17. I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.
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#18. Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!
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#19. Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.
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#21. At the center, on the lawn of the courthouse, sat a log manger with a life-size nativity scene cut out of plywood. If an civil libertarian had complained about the nativity being on public property, he would have been hunted down like Santa's reindeer during bow season.
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#22. Happy people look young. You're really afraid of getting older, aren't you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
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#23. Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
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#24. The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.
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#25. I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. - Beverly Sills
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#26. Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.
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#27. Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how.
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#28. I don't ask for guarantees. I'll tell you what I want. I want to laugh with you. Sit and look at you. Wake up with nothing to think about but how warm and smooth you feel against me. Make a life together. All of this has been worth it if we can have that.
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#30. A kitchen that's too clean has no soul. No flavor.
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