Top 43 Schulman Quotes
#1. They were both deciding not to be what others wanted them to be but to brand themselves for the world to see. To do their own packaging, so to speak, and to direct their powers to their specific target audiences.
Sarah Schulman
#2. Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks.
Sarah Schulman
#3. Do most gay women love each other?" Doc asked.
"A lot of them love closeted movie stars.
Sarah Schulman
#4. Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
Tom Schulman
#5. Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero
Nev Schulman
#6. Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.
Sarah Schulman
#7. The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.
Nev Schulman
#8. I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing?
Sarah Schulman
#9. Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.
Tom Schulman
#10. Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.
Sarah Schulman
#11. I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
Nev Schulman
#12. Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.
Nev Schulman
#13. I want to know my whole story works before I start working.
Tom Schulman
#14. I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.
Sarah Schulman
#15. MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.
Sarah Schulman
#17. You need people around you who will tell you the truth and not hold anything back.
Nev Schulman
#18. This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.
Tom Schulman
#19. If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.
Nev Schulman
#20. It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?
Sarah Schulman
#21. Straight people are the most pathetic of all. I've never seen such a miserable group of people in my life. They don't know anything about themselves
Sarah Schulman
#22. People don't become what they were brought up to be, people become themselves. (p.146)
Sarah Schulman
#23. Online, you're providing each other with the good aspects of being together as far as communication and support, but you don't have to deal with the realities of paying bills together, or being annoyed when they leave the toilet seat up or don't put the food away in the fridge.
Nev Schulman
#24. We are always alone. We are never alone. Even in the center of a crowd of friends , we cannot escape our apartness; even in the locked and darkened room, we cannot cut ourselves off from our sense of the life going on outside.
Lester M. Schulman
#25. Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts.
Tom Schulman
#26. I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man.
Janet Schulman
#27. I've never done it, but I think if you do a Google search for 'People who will help me travel across the country to meet my online love,' I'm probably the only person that comes up.
Nev Schulman
#28. Kids are kids...They do stupid stuff. The thing you guys don't understand is that with this email business, there is no such thing as confidentiality anymore.
Helen Schulman
#29. The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.
Sarah Schulman
#30. When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think
Tom Schulman
#31. You're not user-friendly. You're too needy. You have no social currency. You're a freak. Without a normative side, you can't get in. That's it. Sorry.
Sarah Schulman
#32. "So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.
Tom Schulman
#33. I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.
Sarah Schulman
#34. Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.
Sarah Schulman
#36. Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.
Sarah Schulman
#37. If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.
Nev Schulman
#38. You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.
Sarah Schulman
#39. Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.
Sarah Schulman
#40. People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional
they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.
Sarah Schulman
#41. I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.
Nev Schulman
#42. What I tend to tell my students is, "When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable."
Sarah Schulman
#43. All along, he had believed instinctually that his broken heart had something to do with the collapse of culture. He wanted to blame it on economics instead of on the fact that she was a fucking bitch.
Sarah Schulman
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