"Over time, the ghosts of things that happened……" — Tana French
"Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen."
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77 Quotes by Tana French
Tana French has 77 quotes on this site.
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other…
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I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls…
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Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming…
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Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting…
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years…
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my…
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You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every…
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It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real…
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get…
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend…
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More Blunt Quotes
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which…
— Max Beerbohm
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
— Tupac Shakur
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Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.
— Katt Williams
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
— Eric Hoffer
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
— Gregory Bateson
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making,…
— William Shakespeare
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the…
— Astley Cooper
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally…
— Alan Dershowitz
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide…
— Unknown Author
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