Melissa Holbrook Pierson Quotes

• There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• No me considero encajable en ninguna categoría. Pero he tenido que tener cuidado en todos mis libros de no repetir cosas, porque tengo estas ideas, y aunque los temas fueran dispares, la misma idea surgía a través de diferentes portales.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Libro, Pensamiento, Ideas

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we like to think. We think we're these important human beings. We're not animals or anything. But what did we come out of? What are we made out of? We're made of the same stuff as out there.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Animal, Thinking, Brain

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Mean, Loss, Flip

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time where people are saying, "Oh, you know, loss and change, that's just normal."

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Pérdida, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Numbers, Solitude, Helping

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Essence, Parent, Want

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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