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Turns Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that…
- One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.
- You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,…
- But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best…
- What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez