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Laurie Anderson Inspirational Quotes (192)

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He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
Laurie Anderson
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If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
Laurie Anderson
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I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Having a friend made everything else suck less.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.
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I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.
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The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.
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I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.
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I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
Laurie Anderson
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