S Quotes
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“So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.”
“So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.”
“So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.”
“So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.”
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.”
“So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.”
“So much of being a woman is telling lies”
Source: Lipstick Jungle
“So much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.”
Source: Girlfriend in a Coma
“So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit... you have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part; find the roles that you do well.”
“So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all."”
“So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.”
“So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.”
“So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“So much of courtship is the unspoken.”
Source: Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel
“So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.”
“So much of dealing with a disease is waiting. Waiting for appointments, for tests, for "procedures." And waiting, more broadly, for it--for the thing itself, for the other shoe to drop. Except in the waiting you keep forgetting that "it" will really happen--it's more like a threat, an anxiety: Will my love love me forever?”
Source: The Long Goodbye
“So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.”
“So much of design is context.”
“So much of difference between a triumph and a flop is determined by choice of venue.”
Source: The Immersion Book of Steampunk
“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.”
“So much of feminism has been women speaking up about hitherto unacknowledged experiences, and so much of antifeminism has been men telling them these things didn't happen. "You were not just raped," your rapist may say, and then if you persist there may be death threats, because killing people is the easy way to be the only voice in the room.”
Source: The Mother of All Questions
“So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended”
Source: Living a Feminist Life
“So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.”
“So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“So much of her life and the lives of those around her—her family, friends, and the other villagers—had been adversely affected by a kingsman in some way. How would she explain and keep this from hurting herself or those whom she dearly loved?”
Source: Once I Knew
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.”
“So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.”
“So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.”
Source: The One & Only
“So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.”
Source: Faith Deployed...Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives
“So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.”
“So much of human behavior - political, religious, financial - can be explained by the fact that we want to think the best of ourselves and don’t want to work very hard to do it.”
Source: The Behavioral Investor: How psychology shapes wealth, risk, and investment decisions
“so much of it is invisible — the pain, the tension, the storm beneath the skin. it’s a trap made of body and mind and spirit all at once. stress becomes an echo chamber where even meaning itself hurts. but to name it, to see it clearly, is to begin freeing it. that’s the start of healing — turning survival into understanding.”
Source: Living Colorful Beauty
“So much of it was like seeing myself on paper,” he whispers. “Like reading all the things I never knew how to say.”
Source: Unravel Me
“So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.”
“So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.”
“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.”
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”
“So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.”
“So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.”
“So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.”
Source: Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss
“So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.”
Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.”
“So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.”