Lily King Quotes
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
