“i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July: Quotes about life
Miranda July is American performance artist, musician and writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
The Shared Patio (2005)
Context: Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.
“Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing.”
"Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003) http://guccipiggy.objectis.net/prose/birthmark
Context: Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it. Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Variant: 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.
Source: It Chooses You
On her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), in an interview at Apple.com http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/?movie=july
"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)
As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011)