"That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me."

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Debra Dean

#Would Be Quotes #Biographies Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.”
“Pray God, keep us simple.”
“But if a mirror ever makesÂ you sad you should know that it doesÂ not know you.”
“It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.”
“Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.”
“Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.”
“Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.”
“Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE..”

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