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Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.
Anne Roiphe
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Anne Roiphe
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 25
Essayist
Film Writer
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New York City
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Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
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My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.
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We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
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When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.
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It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.
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They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.
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Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
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A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.
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Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
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If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
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I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.
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Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
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You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
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Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.
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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
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I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.
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I would prefer you not to say, That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read. That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.
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