Diane Ackerman Quotes - Page 4

• I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

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• Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

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  Weed, Hair, Color

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• For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

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  Beautiful, Two, Different

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.48, Vintage

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• We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

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  Heart, Thinking, Knives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

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• Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

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  Philosophy, May, Way

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

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  Running, Love Is, Errands

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.1, Vintage

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• Cuanto más nos exiliamos de la naturaleza, más ansiamos sus aguas milagrosas.

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  Water, Miracle, Exile

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.135, W. W. Norton & Company

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• hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

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  Romance, Ingredients, Twins

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• Tendemos a pensar en los recuerdos como monumentos que una vez forjamos y que podemos encontrar intactos bajo la maleza de los años. Pero, en un sentido real, los recuerdos están ligados al presente y lo describen. Formados de una manera idiosincrásica cuando sucedieron, también son fieles al momento en que se recuerdan, incluyendo cómo te sientes, todo lo que has experimentado y nuevos valores, pasiones y vulnerabilidad. Nunca se entra dos veces en la misma corriente de conciencia.

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  Memories, Real, Passion

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

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  Design, Emotion, Kind

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.268, Vintage

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• No hay nada más memorable que un olor. Un aroma puede ser inesperado, momentáneo y fugaz, y sin embargo evocar un verano de infancia junto a un lago en las montañas...

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  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Un poema registra emociones y estados de ánimo que van más allá del lenguaje normal, que sólo pueden ser remendados e insinuados metafóricamente.

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  Lying, Together, Records

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• History is an agreed-upon fiction.

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  History, Fiction

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.7, Vintage

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• Para bien o para mal, la mayoría de la gente conoce los animales grandes o exóticos en los zoológicos. Pocos verán alguna vez pingüinos salvajes descendiendo en trineo hacia el mar sobre sus barrigas, pandas gigantes sosteniendo piruletas de bambú en China o puercoespines arborícolas en las Rocosas canadienses, hechos bolas como piñas gigantes.

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  Zoos, Animal, Sea

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• It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor ... It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sex, Adventure, Zest

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• When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

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  Heart, Civilization, World

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• What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

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  Self, Birth, Odd

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

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  Sweet, Heart, Love Life

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.172, Vintage

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• Como especie, de alguna manera hemos sobrevivido a grandes y pequeñas glaciaciones, cuellos de botella genéticos, plagas, guerras mundiales y todo tipo de desastres naturales, pero a veces me pregunto si sobreviviremos a nuestro propio ingenio.

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  War, Ice, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mírate en el espejo. El rostro que te clava su doble mirada revela un secreto castigador.

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  Mirrors, Knowing Who You Are, Keeping Secrets

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1991.

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• Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

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  Love Is, Emotional, Color

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.17, Vintage

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• Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

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  Ideas, Focus, Perception

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.127, Vintage

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• Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

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  Passion, Fighting, Love Is

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.19, Vintage

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• Los seres nocturnos viven fuera del tiempo "normal" y, por tanto, sugieren vivir fuera del ámbito del bien y del mal, ya que tenemos sentimientos moralistas sobre el tiempo. Al ser chovinistas con respecto a nuestra necesidad de despertarnos de día y dormir de noche, asociamos a los habitantes de la noche con gente que no hace nada bueno en un momento en el que nos llevan ventaja y desafían a la naturaleza, desafiando sus ritmos circadianos.

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  Sueño, Noche, Gente

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

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  Country, Dream, Clothes

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