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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#emotional #more #much #murky #observation

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#does #health #health insurance #industrial #industrialized

I had a dream about you last night... you made a beard for yourself out of forty two bags of Twizzlers. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys? ↗

— Randall Terry

#before #between #homosexual #how #just

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#good intentions #had #intentions #money #only

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#am #contained #girl #how #i

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#just #kind #know #movie #relationship

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#baggy #big #career #early #go