Dolly Parton Quotes
If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
Dolly Parton
Quotes to Explore
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The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.
W. G. Sebald
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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
Chuck Berry
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Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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If this becomes a permanent barrier to employment and volunteering because of the use of this technology, then you're locking in the racial discrimination already in the system and multiplying its effect to a devastating degree.
Ira Glasser
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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
Leon Uris
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I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
Angelina Jolie
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My kids are from different countries, but there's an understanding, you don't have to like a country just because you were born in it. You need to respect all countries. And be very open to each other's, of course.
Angelina Jolie
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I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
Kingsley Amis
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If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.
Umberto Eco
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
Lisa See
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Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
R. S. Thomas
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
Naguib Mahfouz
