"There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event."

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Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

Geraldine Jewsbury

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“I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.”

Source : Song: When You're Hot, You're Hot
“Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)”
“The most important question any human being will ever face: 'Who do you say that Jesus is?'”
“It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, â€œListen to me.”

Source : "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.
“If you eat good, you feel good. I would encourage every body else to do the same.”
“I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.”

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