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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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 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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It's basically the same, just darker.
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I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.
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In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
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Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
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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.
