Mary Karr Quotes
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
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The tomb sits on a large marble platform, called a plinth. At each corner of this platform is a minaret (a tall, narrow tower from which a Muslim calls the devout to prayer). It is this building which is called the Taj Mahal, although the name often refers to the whole complex.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution. To the discerning eye, his farm is labeled with the badge and symbol of the prairie war.
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'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.
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Non isperate mai veder lo cielo:i' vegno per menarvi a l'altra rivane le tenebre etterne, in caldo e 'n gelo.
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Who loves a lot, forgives a lot.
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I knew coming into this year that the difference between finishing third and finishing eighth was going to be a bad weekend. I think that's playing out.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
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Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
