Sara Levine Quotes

#1. A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you.

Sara Levine

#2. If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.

Sara Levine

#3. BOLDNESS
RESOLUTION
INDEPENDENCE
HORN-BLOWING

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#4. My thoughts don't really bump along this way, but they do bump somehow, and it's more honest
more pedagogically useful, more truthful
to arrange them in a loose, disconnected, provisional way than to deliver only the conclusions.

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#5. And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce an inferiority complex ...

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#6. One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

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#7. People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

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#8. You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup.

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#9. No doubt he is more than that, but we have no time to inquire.

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#10. They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.

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#11. Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.

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#12. The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.

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#13. Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.

Sara Levine