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Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
— Vivian Gornick
Google, that twenty-first-century Big Brother,
— Stephen King
Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.
— Vivian Gornick
Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.
— Vivian Gornick
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
A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.
— Ivan Glasenberg
As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station,
— Alice Steinbach
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
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
— Kaitlin Olson
What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge
— 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
You are the instrument of your own illumination.
— Vivian Gornick
Employees Are Human Capital of An Organisation
— Marieke Stoop
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
I can't believe you're old enough to have your purpose," Mom says with a sigh. "Makes me feel old.""You are old. — Cynthia Hand
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.
— Vivian Gornick
It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.
— 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
You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.
— Vivian Gornick
For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.
— 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
I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.
— Frances Trollope
I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans
— Taylor Swift
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
Is this okay?"Dex blinked. Okay? She couldn't have been any more
okay had she been dipped in marshmallow and rolled in coconut. — Amy Andrews
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
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
Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.
— Hayley Williams
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
I'm afraid this man will kill me some day.
— Nicole Brown Simpson
