"Even the best of us are at least…" — Mary Karr
"Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards."
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57 Quotes by Mary Karr
Mary Karr has 57 quotes on this site.
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Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and…
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If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it…
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in…
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last…
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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and…
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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people…
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first…
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More Bastards Quotes
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I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and…
— Ty Cobb
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They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
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I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards -…
— George S. Patton
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Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!
— Unknown Author
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We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines.…
— Unknown Author
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
— Joy Baluch
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When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full…
— David Roberts
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are…
— George R. R. Martin
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Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books,…
— Lorenz Hart
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I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.
— Hume Cronyn
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