Monica Youn quotes
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“I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.”
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“I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.”
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“I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.”
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“When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - religious, legal, sexual - encompassing mortality and sin and family and eternity.”
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“When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barren. And "estate" encompasses both legacy and landscape. Think of Emerson, referring to his son's death as "the loss of a beautiful estate."”
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“Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.”
-- Monica Youn
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“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
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“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
Source : "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.
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“Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.”
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“My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.”
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“Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.”
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