Clumsiness Quotes

Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.