“People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.”
Source: Delta Wedding
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American author 1909–2001Related quotes
“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
Variant: Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.
Source: Remembrance Rock
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Para mí estas cosas son como una cebolla, entre más capas descubres, más vas llorando. No hay vencedores en las guerras, sólo sangre y vencidos.
Interview with Guillermo del Toro on 10/09/2006. http://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2006/10/2192/
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”
As quoted in You Must Remember This (1975) by Walter Wagner, p. 175
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Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).
“She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.”
Source: The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
