Quotes by Mary Jo Putney - Page 1

Competence is a great creator of confidence.
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Competence
Creator
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Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.
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Luxury
Principles
Sometimes
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Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
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Best House
Fake
Sincerity
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If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
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Inevitable
Should
Trying
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What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
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Childhood
Children
Heart
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You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help
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Crazy
Doe
Helping
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Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
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Deals
Fairs
Life Is
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Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.
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Cat
Ice Cream
Simple
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Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
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Answers
Chinese
Feet
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we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.
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Growing Up
Sex
Thinking
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I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
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Cities
Taste
Vegas
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Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
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People
Silence
Stupid
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[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.
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New York
Home
Cities
Views
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I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
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Christmas Love
Enjoy Life
Years
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But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
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Gratitude
Inspired
Love You
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Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.
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Children
Father
Revenge
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But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.
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Men
Cows
Thinking
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My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.
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Girl
Brother
Character
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A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
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Couple
Moving
Witty
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