Carrie Jones Quotes
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.
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I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.
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And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
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I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Finally the bell rings and the teenage Pavlovian dogs mosve to the next kennel.
