Miranda July quotes - page 3

I could not make a move without making love. (Miranda July)
We come from long lines of people destined never to meet. View quote
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She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry. View quote
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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone. View quote
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I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was going to die and it was taking forever. (Miranda July)
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil. View quote
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I wanted to make the movie feel like life feels to me - and life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful - it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation. View quote
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I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep. View quote
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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. View quote
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I pretended that I was pausing before telling him about the secret feeling of joy that I hide in my chest, waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to notice that I rise each morning seemingly with nothing to live for, but I do rise, and it is only because of this secret joy, God's love, in my chest. View quote
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It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. View quote
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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. View quote
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I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone - things are not the same anymore. View quote
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Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. View quote
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Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself. (Miranda July)
I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. View quote
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Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise. View quote
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Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing. View quote
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Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant. View quote
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