Honor Tracy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."
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Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.
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In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.
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a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.
-- Honor Tracy
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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
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I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
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