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The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.


John Gregory Dunne

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GREGORY NUNN It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY [Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
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