Helen Kieran Reilly quotes
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“Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.”
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“emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.”
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“On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.”
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“Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.”
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“Joy could be as exhausting as grief.”
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“Time is the measure of that which changes ...”
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“You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.”
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“Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.”
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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
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Source : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.
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“Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.”
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“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”
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“Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable”
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