Top 34 Jessa Crispin Quotes
#1. I don't think that I can be settled and I don't think that I would ever want to be.
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#2. Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.
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#3. My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.
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#4. I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
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#5. This is the way dissent is handled in feminist realms: a contrary opinion or argument is actually an attack. This stems from the belief that your truth is the only truth, that your sense of trauma and oppression does not need to be examined or questioned. In
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#6. I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.
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#7. Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.
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#8. I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely ... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.
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#9. I have a really good life and I really like it.
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#10. I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.
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#12. I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance.
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#13. You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.
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#14. I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
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#15. Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.
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#17. I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.
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#18. Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.
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#19. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
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#20. I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.
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#21. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
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#22. American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
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#23. I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.
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#24. It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another's value. It is easier to define yourself as 'not that,' rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
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#25. 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.
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#26. A wild appreciation of men and women ... who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance ... The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.
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#27. I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.
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#28. Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.
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#30. Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."
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#31. Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.
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#32. But here's a little secret: man cannot live on rationality alone.
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#33. Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
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#34. I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
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