Andrew Greeley Quotes
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
