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Top 20 Elizabeth Mckenzie Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “Art is despair with dignity.”

1. “Art is despair with dignity.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “The Flying squirrel flies, and the Irksome squirrel irks. The Spinning squirrel spins and the Smirking squirrel smirks. The Crapulous craps and the Lurking lurks; But when the Talking squirrel talks, none but a Listening Human works.”

2. “The Flying squirrel flies, and the Irksome squirrel irks. The Spinning squirrel spins and the Smirking squirrel smirks. The Crapulous craps and the Lurking lurks; But when the Talking squirrel talks, none but a Listening Human works.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “When you entered the cavern of another language, you could leave certain people behind, for they had no interest in following you in. You could, by way of translation, emerge from the cavern and share your adventures with them. You didn’t have to be an intellectual in a black beret smoking clove cigarettes to be a translator, not at all. You could become one in your blue flannel pajamas, your face smeared with Clearsil. You did.”

3. “When you entered the cavern of another language, you could leave certain people behind, for they had no interest in following you in. You could, by way of translation, emerge from the cavern and share your adventures with them. You didn’t have to be an intellectual in a black beret smoking clove cigarettes to be a translator, not at all. You could become one in your blue flannel pajamas, your face smeared with Clearsil. You did.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, “because that’s the only way to motivate expenditure on them – such as buying traps or guns. It’s the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.”

4. “Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, “because that’s the only way to motivate expenditure on them – such as buying traps or guns. It’s the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “She had once concluded everyone on earth was a servant to the previous generation – born from the body’s factory for entertainment and use. A life could be spent like an apology – to prove you had been worth it.”

5. “She had once concluded everyone on earth was a servant to the previous generation – born from the body’s factory for entertainment and use. A life could be spent like an apology – to prove you had been worth it.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “By clearly emphasizing all that was lacking in others, by mapping and raising to an art form the catalog of their flaws, Veblen’s mother had inversely punched out a template for an ideal human being, and it was the unspoken assumption that Veblen would aspire to this template with all her might.”

6. “By clearly emphasizing all that was lacking in others, by mapping and raising to an art form the catalog of their flaws, Veblen’s mother had inversely punched out a template for an ideal human being, and it was the unspoken assumption that Veblen would aspire to this template with all her might.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “A life could be spent like an apology – to prove you had been worth it.”

7. “A life could be spent like an apology – to prove you had been worth it.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “It bothered Veblen’s mother that most people were lazy and had given up original thought a long time ago, stealing stale phrases from the media like magpies.”

8. “It bothered Veblen’s mother that most people were lazy and had given up original thought a long time ago, stealing stale phrases from the media like magpies.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.”

9. “He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “She’d let her eyes water so the view was blurry, which gave certain qualities of the world neglected by clear eyesight the chance to come forth, such as the shocking beauty of color, and she remembered this with compassion for that silly young self, which had deserved to have her hand held.”

10. “She’d let her eyes water so the view was blurry, which gave certain qualities of the world neglected by clear eyesight the chance to come forth, such as the shocking beauty of color, and she remembered this with compassion for that silly young self, which had deserved to have her hand held.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “That until now she was a Christmas tree that had been decorated by someone who hated Christmas.”

11. “That until now she was a Christmas tree that had been decorated by someone who hated Christmas.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. “Kill me!” it suggested as we passed by.”

12. “We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. “Kill me!” it suggested as we passed by.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “While we’re talking about my dreams, about how I’m gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.”

13. “While we’re talking about my dreams, about how I’m gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “And yet – with those well-marked whiskers, and that topcoat, and the notable scruff, a squirrel who cared and followed you everywhere – wouldn’t that be nice?”

14. “And yet – with those well-marked whiskers, and that topcoat, and the notable scruff, a squirrel who cared and followed you everywhere – wouldn’t that be nice?”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “And from a branch in the tall tree, a small gray squirrel released a mighty roar.”

15. “And from a branch in the tall tree, a small gray squirrel released a mighty roar.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “She had a lot of practice standing things because she had to stand them, which was a hard habit to break.”

16. “She had a lot of practice standing things because she had to stand them, which was a hard habit to break.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?”

17. “She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?”

18. “Do you think wishful thinking is a psychiatric condition?”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.” – G. W. CARVER.”

19. “If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.” – G. W. CARVER.”

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Elizabeth Mckenzie Quote: “Veblen, you may not know it now, but marriage affects everything that happens to you. Your mate becomes the mirror in which you see yourself. If he doesn’t see you as a beautiful pearl, you’ll wither.”

20. “Veblen, you may not know it now, but marriage affects everything that happens to you. Your mate becomes the mirror in which you see yourself. If he doesn’t see you as a beautiful pearl, you’ll wither.”

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