Ring Lardner Quotes
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When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.
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Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.
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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.
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Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
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To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.
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I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.
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If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.
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When you’re signed to a big label and they’re giving money for you to do things, you can’t do whatever you want. Like, I wouldn’t be able to make a totally indie punk record. You need to find the balance.
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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!
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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
