Top 29 Tillie Olsen Quotes
#1. Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog
Pamela Paul
#2. That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
Tillie Olsen
#3. Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.
Pat Conroy
#4. I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
Tillie Olsen
#5. The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.
Sara Sheridan
#6. Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
Tillie Olsen
#7. And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
#8. Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
Tillie Olsen
#9. Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
Tillie Olsen
#10. Who cares what time you wake up and go to bed? What matters most is what you do with your life in between.
J.R. Rim
#11. More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
Tillie Olsen
#12. I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
#13. Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.
David Jeremiah
#14. The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.
Alanna Zabel
#15. What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?
Tillie Olsen
#16. She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
Tillie Olsen
#17. There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
Tillie Olsen
#18. I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
Niall Ferguson
#19. Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts.
A.D. Posey
#20. It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain?
Tillie Olsen
#22. Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.
Tillie Olsen
#23. The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen
#24. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Tillie Olsen
#25. Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
Tillie Olsen
#27. The world was full of signs. One needed only to know how to see and interpret them.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#28. Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
Tillie Olsen
#29. Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
Tillie Olsen
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