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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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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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.
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I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
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There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
