Sarah Dunn Quotes
She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
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My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.
