Karen Essex quotes
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“Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.”
-- Karen EssexSource : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor
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“I am more human than rational.”
-- Karen EssexSource : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.336, Anchor
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“I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.”
-- Karen EssexSource : Karen Essex (2010). “Dracula in Love”, p.309, Anchor
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“There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?”
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“It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.”
-- Karen EssexSource : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor
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“Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?”
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“I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?”
-- Karen Essex
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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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“For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends”
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“I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.”
Source : "Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad's "bloodbath" of a fifth season". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2012.
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“The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..”
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