Miranda July Short Quotes

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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

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He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

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When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

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What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

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I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

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The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

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Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

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She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

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I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..

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It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

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I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.

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We had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

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We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

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That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

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It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn't dying.

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She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

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It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

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I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

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I'm totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

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I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn't laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

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What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.

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We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.

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It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

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I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

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We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

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All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

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In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

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I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.

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