Jan Karon Quotes
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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Renaissance Italy became a kind of Hollywood collection of sets of antiquity, and the new visual antiquarianism of the Renaissance provided an avenue to power for men of any class. (p. 136)
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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
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Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
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There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
