Colm Toibin Quotes
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm Toibin
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
D. H. Lawrence
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
Nargis Fakhri
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
Natalie Dormer
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.
Jewel Kilcher
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
Caroll Spinney
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.
Kami Garcia
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm Toibin
