Mary Karr Quotes
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr
Quotes to Explore
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
M. Emmet Walsh
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Garret Dillahunt
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Kuang
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
Sally Mann
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
Warren G. Harding
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr