"Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles."

“That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.”

“for the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ...”

“Whitney won't ever even know what it's like to be 50. Whitney will never know what it's like to be 50. She died before she was 50. So there's nothing to be ashamed of. You should be proud of your age.”

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“Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well....”

Source : Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

“What are you being? What are you choosing to be? Is it loving? Is it caring? Healing?You can be more of that no matter what you are doing. Yet, the magic of it is, the more of that your are BEING, the more what you are DOING will fall perfectly into place to allow you to "be" even more of that!Trust this process. It works.You will discover that forms - physical ways to "be" a thing - will suddenly start to just "show up".Beingness becomes form.”

“In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.”

“When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.”

“Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.”

Source : Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books