"As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream."

-- Judith Hanson Lasater

#Swimming Quotes #Ceilings Quotes #Titles Quotes

“We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.12, Open Road Media
“I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.”
“In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.”

Source : Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”
“I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.”
“Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.”
“When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.”
“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”
“I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.”

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