Top 18 Ellmann Quotes

#1. I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.

Lucy Ellmann

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#2. I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

Charles B. Rangel

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#3. To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

James Joyce

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#4. I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.

Anton Corbijn

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#5. Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Richard Ellmann

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#6. The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

Lucy Ellmann

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#7. Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

Lucy Ellmann

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#8. The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

Lucy Ellmann

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#9. Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Lucy Ellmann

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#10. Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

Learned Hand

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#11. How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

James Beattie

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#12. Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

Richard Ellmann

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#13. I choose you and I would choose you all over again. As Jane Eyre said of her Mr. Rochester, "I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed - blessed beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."1

Jen Hatmaker

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#14. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.

Jessa Crispin

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#15. Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

Ron Lewis

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#16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Richard Ellmann

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#17. I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

Sarah Jessica Parker

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#18. What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

Lucy Ellmann

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