Katharine Tynan Quotes
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
