Alison Lurie Quotes
But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
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A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
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The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
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What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.
