Julianna Baggott Quotes

• A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

  Julianna Baggott

  Target Market, Boundaries, Novel

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• Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

  Julianna Baggott

  Mistake, Way, Sometimes

  Julianna Baggott (2001). “Girl Talk”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Believe, Teaching

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

  Julianna Baggott

  Done, Wit And Humor, Republican

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Rezando

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• Políticamente estoy a favor del aborto, pero personalmente estoy a favor de la vida. Tengo mi fe, pero me niego a imponerla al mundo en general, especialmente a este mundo tan brutal e injusto. No puedo tomar estas desgarradoras decisiones personales de vida o muerte por otros, ni creo que deba hacerlo una iglesia dirigida por hombres sin hijos.

  Julianna Baggott

  Running, Believe, Men

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• People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

  Julianna Baggott

  Corazón, Diferencias, Personas

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• I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

  Julianna Baggott

  Waiting, Something New

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

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  Love Is, Indulge In, Luxury

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• I prefer true over happy now.

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• Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

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  Different, Sometimes, Knows

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• I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.

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  Struggle, Have Faith, Humans

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

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  Giving Up, Past, Weakness

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• The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

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  Plot, Weight, Bears

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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  Cosas malas

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• My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

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  Character, Stories, Knows

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

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  Love, Average, Hands

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• If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

  Julianna Baggott

  Motivation, Writing, Giving

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• Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

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  Strong, Children, Imagination

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• Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.

  Julianna Baggott

  Husband, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

  Julianna Baggott

  Mean, Imagination, Catholic

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• Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

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  Mother, Giving, Stories

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

  Julianna Baggott

  Desea

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Hasta ahora, debería estar tranquilo y más concretamente no ser así... ¿Algo más? ¿Te gustaría operar mi personalidad? ¿Qué tal una operación a corazón abierto? Tengo algunas herramientas

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  Heart, Personality, Tools

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• Our love is our burden.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love Is, Our Love, Burden

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