14 Quotes & Sayings By Tyne Oconnell

Tyne O'Connell is a novelist and screenwriter. She lives in New York City, where she works as a television writer and consulting producer. She has written the novels The Descendants (2003), The Comeback (2006), and The Nameless (2010). Her latest novel, The First Bad Man, was published in February 2012 Read more

She was recruited to write the first book for the novel series by her agent and friend, and the first book was published in September 2011.

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Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world’s problems? Tyne OConnell
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I suppose you’re young, ’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo Tyne OConnell
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The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink’s shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets Tyne OConnell
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London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss. Tyne OConnell
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I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks Tyne OConnell
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Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy Tyne OConnell
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The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive. Tyne OConnell
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Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore. Tyne OConnell
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Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria. Tyne OConnell
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I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress! Tyne OConnell
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It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress Tyne OConnell
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I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health Tyne OConnell
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Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard Tyne OConnell