Quotes by Miranda July

Miranda July

… 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.

Eye

Real

Sound

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

Hello

Running

World

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

Psychology

Self

Thinking

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can’t think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

Book

Silly

Wise

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.

Body

People

Want

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It’s a nice thing to collect because you can’t go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I’ve only found about 12.

Book

Nice

Years

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.

Dumped Her

Kissing

Promise

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

Knives

People

Revenge

As a woman filmmaker it’s pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you’re coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there’s less and less women. There’s less and less mirrors for who you are.

Filmmaker

Important

Mirrors

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Grows

Ivy

Rooms

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Air

Airports

Always Trying

Animal

Annoying

Answers

Art

Artist

Asking

Balance

Beautiful

Bedroom

Being Single

Believe

Block

Body

Book

Bored

Boredom

Boring

Boss

Boys

Bridges

Broken

Building Up

Car

Chance

Character

Children

Circles

Cities

Class

Clay

Clothes

Comforting

Compassion

Complicated

Conscious

Consent

Constant

Couple

Crazy

Creating

Creative

Cry

Dark

Decision

Depressing

Died

Dies

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Quotes by Miranda July

Miranda July

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

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

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.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It’s a nice thing to collect because you can’t go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I’ve only found about 12.

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.

As a woman filmmaker it’s pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you’re coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there’s less and less women. There’s less and less mirrors for who you are.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

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