2005

Explore 45 quotes from the year 2005

Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Topic

Self-acceptance Art as therapy Painting Art

Speaker

Robert Rauschenberg

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible.

Colson Whitehead

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Topic

Serendipity Timing Books

Author

Colson Whitehead

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Whitehead, Colson. "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited." The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2005.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Topic

Happiness Sadness Yin and yang

Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Source

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.

Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it.

Brokeback Mountain

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Topic

Missing someone

Speaker

Jack Twist

Actor

Jake Gyllenhaal

Source

Brokeback Mountain

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Brokeback Mountain. Directed by Ang Lee, River Road Entertainment, 2005.

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Topic

Mortality Loss The human condition

Author

Joan Didion

Source

The Year of Magical Thinking

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 17.