Sonya Hartnett Quotes
A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.
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I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
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A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
