Doris McCarthy quotes

“Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.”
-- Doris McCarthy

Source : Doris McCarthy (2006). “Doris McCarthy: My Life”, p.9, Second Story Press

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“You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.”
-- Doris McCarthy

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“Take a moment to think... See - logically.”
-- Doris McCarthy

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“My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.”
-- Doris McCarthy

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“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”
-- Doris McCarthy

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“I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.”
-- Doris McCarthy

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“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.”

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

“Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.”

“The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.”

“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.”

“Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.”

“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams