Ali Liebegott quotes

“I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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“Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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“I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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“As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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“For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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“I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : "Remixing Philip Glass". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2012.

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“In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!”
-- Ali Liebegott

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“It's not like I hate gay people.”
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf

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“Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.””
-- Ali Liebegott

Source : Ali Liebegott (2007). “The IHOP Papers”, p.2, Carroll & Graf

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“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”

“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”

“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”

“Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.”

Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.