"I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban."

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Eliza Griswold

#Two Quotes #Young Quotes #Threat Quotes

“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.”
“God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.”
“The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.”
“I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.”
“[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.”
“One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.”
“A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.”
“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

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