Top 160 Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes (2024 Update)
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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Autocorrect can happen to anyone, but I seriously don’t understand what goes on between him and his phone.”

151. “Autocorrect can happen to anyone, but I seriously don’t understand what goes on between him and his phone.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Something inside me clenched. So often, people let you down; so often, situations turn out disappointingly. But occasionally someone recognizes, acknowledges, your private and truest self.”

152. “Something inside me clenched. So often, people let you down; so often, situations turn out disappointingly. But occasionally someone recognizes, acknowledges, your private and truest self.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Because my mother hadn’t been an ostentatious or performative person, it had taken me a long time, until college really, to realize how smart and funny she was, and how generously compassionate.”

153. “Because my mother hadn’t been an ostentatious or performative person, it had taken me a long time, until college really, to realize how smart and funny she was, and how generously compassionate.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “It was a belated realization to have, but it occurred to me that perhaps this was how grown-up conversations worked – not that your communication didn’t falter, but that you both made good-faith attempts to rectify things after it had.”

154. “It was a belated realization to have, but it occurred to me that perhaps this was how grown-up conversations worked – not that your communication didn’t falter, but that you both made good-faith attempts to rectify things after it had.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “I won’t claim I’ve never in my life done anything I’m ashamed of, but I haven’t done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I’ve made, that’s fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong.”

155. “I won’t claim I’ve never in my life done anything I’m ashamed of, but I haven’t done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I’ve made, that’s fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “All of which was to say that the sketches I’d written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.”

156. “All of which was to say that the sketches I’d written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “You know the advice about how you should always play tennis with people better than you? When I’m talking to you, I’m a funnier and smarter version of myself because you’re funny and smart.”

157. “You know the advice about how you should always play tennis with people better than you? When I’m talking to you, I’m a funnier and smarter version of myself because you’re funny and smart.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. “As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.”

158. “Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. “As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “A dystopian story must not merely be dystopian; it must also be a story. Premise can only get you so far.”

159. “A dystopian story must not merely be dystopian; it must also be a story. Premise can only get you so far.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “If you’re our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism, right? The triumph of hope over experience?”

160. “If you’re our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism, right? The triumph of hope over experience?”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Not only will I be there,” Liz said, “but I’ll be impersonating a pleasant woman with great manners.”

161. “Not only will I be there,” Liz said, “but I’ll be impersonating a pleasant woman with great manners.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “His expression became both very tender and very amused, as if there were an excellent inside joke between us, and he tilted his head to the right and looked at me with a focused kind of sweetness and warmth.”

162. “His expression became both very tender and very amused, as if there were an excellent inside joke between us, and he tilted his head to the right and looked at me with a focused kind of sweetness and warmth.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Aren’t we all just looking for someone to talk about everything with? Someone worth the effort of telling our stories and opinions to, whose stories and opinions we actually want to hear?”

163. “Aren’t we all just looking for someone to talk about everything with? Someone worth the effort of telling our stories and opinions to, whose stories and opinions we actually want to hear?”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “If I’ll never know how much this was my path because of fate and how much because I willed it, the question is less important than that I made it across. Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. They know because they’ve seen it happen.”

164. “If I’ll never know how much this was my path because of fate and how much because I willed it, the question is less important than that I made it across. Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. They know because they’ve seen it happen.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “I knew how when you really liked a boy, all the little daily incidents shrank and slipped away. You carried around you anticipation of seeing him again and retrieved it when you felt bored or anxious, like a memory of something good.”

165. “I knew how when you really liked a boy, all the little daily incidents shrank and slipped away. You carried around you anticipation of seeing him again and retrieved it when you felt bored or anxious, like a memory of something good.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Sometimes when I speak, I feel like I’m writing dialogue for the character of myself. I’m impersonating a normal human when really I’m a confused freak.”

166. “Sometimes when I speak, I feel like I’m writing dialogue for the character of myself. I’m impersonating a normal human when really I’m a confused freak.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Could it be that Noah was one of those rare guys who didn’t essentially dislike or mock women, and who also didn’t ignore our existence, and who also didn’t see us primarily as objects of lust? That he was weirdly, disarmingly fine with us?”

167. “Could it be that Noah was one of those rare guys who didn’t essentially dislike or mock women, and who also didn’t ignore our existence, and who also didn’t see us primarily as objects of lust? That he was weirdly, disarmingly fine with us?”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “A lesson I learned from Bill, a lesson that perhaps should be obvious, though there’s evidence that most other people don’t know it, either, is that direct and sincere compliments are shockingly effective – that they feel wonderful. What in theory should sound saccharine or manipulative rarely does in practice, so long as you believe the other person really means it. And we crave praise not, I think, because most of us are egomaniacal. It’s because we’re human.”

168. “A lesson I learned from Bill, a lesson that perhaps should be obvious, though there’s evidence that most other people don’t know it, either, is that direct and sincere compliments are shockingly effective – that they feel wonderful. What in theory should sound saccharine or manipulative rarely does in practice, so long as you believe the other person really means it. And we crave praise not, I think, because most of us are egomaniacal. It’s because we’re human.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “If you were a writer, you could be impressive in a cerebral sort of way, but if you were a musician, you got to be viscerally magical.”

169. “If you were a writer, you could be impressive in a cerebral sort of way, but if you were a musician, you got to be viscerally magical.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “In my youth, I had respected my father’s intelligence, not recognizing how much sharper my mother’s was because hers was concealed by being pleasant and female.”

170. “In my youth, I had respected my father’s intelligence, not recognizing how much sharper my mother’s was because hers was concealed by being pleasant and female.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “Perhaps, as was often the case with human interactions, it meant nothing.”

171. “Perhaps, as was often the case with human interactions, it meant nothing.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “A sense of humor is always a bonus. As with dinner companions, so it is with short stories.”

172. “A sense of humor is always a bonus. As with dinner companions, so it is with short stories.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Quote: “I’m not going to say the rule doesn’t exist, but it’s like Santa Claus. It’s only real if you believe in it.”

173. “I’m not going to say the rule doesn’t exist, but it’s like Santa Claus. It’s only real if you believe in it.”

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