Katharine Tynan Quotes
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
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The region is going through a very difficult process and I think it would be better to make constructive statements to see if we can cool down the situation.
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I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
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The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.
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I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.
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Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
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Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
