Varley O'Connor Quotes
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor
Quotes to Explore
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
Barbara Windsor
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
Malaika Arora Khan
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
Wendy Kopp
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Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
Landon Donovan
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
Adam Jones
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For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
Dick Pound
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
Norman Angell
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
Stewart O'Nan
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Being sick never worked as an excuse at the asparagus plantation at Osterburg. For example, the pregnant girl wanted to go home. She cried and pleaded. The doctor declared her fit for work. She willfully threw up in the fields every morning. An official from the work department, stuffed into his Nazi uniform, finally gave her permission to leave, but not for homeāfor Poland.
Edith Hahn Beer
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor