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Sandra Hochman

Sandra Hochman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.”
-- Sandra Hochman

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“A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.”
-- Sandra Hochman

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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”
“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”
“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”
“I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?”
“My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents...”
“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

Source : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, New York: Pantheon, (p. 153), 1943.
“Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.”

Sandra Hochman quotes

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