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Up Quotes by Mary Karr
- When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be…
- No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of…
- I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
- If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a…
- But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can…
- How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
- I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can…
- He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.
- I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong