Mary Karr Quotes
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,And news much older than their ale went round.
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
