Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.
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From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.
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You have to watch what you eat.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.
