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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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
