Miranda July Quotes - Page 4

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

  Miranda Julio

  Answers, Chance, Wonder

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.25, Canongate Books

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

  Miranda Julio

  Pizzazz

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.

  Miranda Julio

  Kissing, Promise, Dumped Her

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Miranda Julio

  Dying, Growing, Way

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.

  Miranda Julio

  Long Ago, Twenties, Moments

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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

  Miranda Julio

  Mean, World, Get Away

  "Something That Needs Nothing". www.newyorker.com. September 18, 2006.

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• I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

  Miranda Julio

  Class, Circles, Wish

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Miranda Julio

  People, Body, Want

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• … it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.

  Miranda Julio

  Real, Eye, Sound

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.14, Canongate Books

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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.

  Miranda Julio

  Stories, Matter, Wanted

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.13, Canongate Books

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• If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the question. If you don't know anyone, call the operator and tell him. Most people don't know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

  Miranda Julio

  Phones, Law, People

  "No One Belongs Here More Than You". Book by Miranda July, November 2, 2005.

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• 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.

  Miranda Julio

  Children, Real, Men

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

  Miranda Julio

  Giving Up, Writing, Loving Someone

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.6, McSweeney's

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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.

  Miranda Julio

  Water, Mind, Body

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.22, Canongate Books

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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.

  Miranda Julio

  Laughter, Laughing, Died

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

  Miranda Julio

  Running, Order, People

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

  Miranda Julio

  Beautiful, Liars, Believe

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• He's stuck at 3:14 a.m. with only the moon to talk to.

  Miranda Julio

  Moon, Stuck

  Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.5, Canongate Books

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• En realidad, no creemos en cortar el césped; lo hacemos sólo para evitar enfrentamientos innecesarios con los vecinos.

  Miranda Julio

  Believe, Mowing, Engagement

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.

  Miranda Julio

  Eye, Hands, His Eyes

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human.

  Miranda Julio

  Dark, Night, Imagination

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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

  Miranda Julio

  Love Is, Tree, Knows

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

  Miranda Julio

  Bedroom, Mess, Lays

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

  Miranda Julio

  Wise, Real, Ocean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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

  Miranda Julio

  Compassion, Looks, Cry

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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