Alanis Morissette Quotes

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I want you to know, that I am happy for you
I wish nothing but the best for you both
An older version of me,
Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theatre?

Alanis Morissette

How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else,
How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself.

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And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know.

Alanis Morissette

Supposed former infatuation junkie,
I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.

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I want to be naked running through the streets,
I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be.

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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.

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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?

Alanis Morissette

And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.

Alanis Morissette

My brothers,
They never went blind for what they did, but I may as well have.
In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son,
I had one more stupid question.

Alanis Morissette

When [Jagged Little Pill] came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

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I am the funniest woman that you've ever known.
I am the dullest woman that you've ever known.
I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone
Who is as everything as I am sometimes.

Alanis Morissette

I'd speak of artistry you would roll your eyes skyward
When I'd speak of spirituality you would label it absurd
When I spoke of possibility you would frown and shake your head
If I had stayed much longer, I'd have surely imploded

Alanis Morissette

You're unsure and you're not ready so that must mean I want you
You're unavailable and disinterested and to you I look for comfort

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Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you
Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to

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I feel this, truly proclaimed, will help the curbing of this tendency
I know this sharing of shame will ensure that I won't forget myself so easily

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You were uncomfortable in your own skin you were thirsty but mostly you were beautiful
If we were our paranoias i'd be joining you
if we were our incomes
If we were our obsessions
If we were our afflictions i'd be joining you

Alanis Morissette

Dear popular boy I know you're used to getting everything so easily/ A stranger to the concept of reciprocity
People honor boys like you in this society

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I want to decide between survival and bliss
And though I know who I'm not I still don't know who I am
But I know I won't keep on playing the victim

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Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out and you say 'How appropriate'

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To all the unheard wisdom in the school yard: you think you're the right ones; you swear you're the charmed ones I'm sure. But how can you go on with such conviction? Who do you think you are when you question me?

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There's an obvious attraction to the path of least resistance in your life.
There's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistance could make you try tonight

Alanis Morissette