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Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
— Vivian Gornick
But, your ass still haven't told her about LaNyla! She's the girl's god mommy; not knowing she step momma too!
— Danielle Marcus
Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.
— Vivian Gornick
How many evils have flowed from religion.
— Lucretius
Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.
— Vivian Gornick
The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.
— Vivian Gornick
Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.
— Vivian Gornick
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge
— Vivian Gornick
You are the instrument of your own illumination.
— Vivian Gornick
Everyone longs for expressiveness. That's why love carries so much weight. Because so many lives are without other means of expressiveness.
— Vivian Gornick
We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.
— Vivian Gornick
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.
— Vivian Gornick
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.
— Vivian Gornick
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.
— Vivian Gornick
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.
— Vivian Gornick
The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.
— Vivian Gornick
That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.
— Vivian Gornick
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.
— Vivian Gornick
We got married: society's solution to loneliness, lust and laundry.
— Luke Rhinehart
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
— Damian Woetzel
She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?
— Vivian Gornick
I didn't want to fall in love with anyone. I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess.
— Nicholas Sparks
They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.
— Vivian Gornick
In New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.
— Vivian Gornick
Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.
— Kedar Joshi
