Carolyn Chute Quotes

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I don't know why.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

He [Richard Nixon] was more lacking in self-confidence than any leading politician I have known.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.

I'm such a loser; I don't really go out. None of my friends are really actors, so in that regard, I still have all the same friends and do all the same things.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.