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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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.
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The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.
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Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
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Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
