"I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side."

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Source : George Leigh Mallory's diary entry (May 27, 1924) as quoted in James Ramsey Ullman "Kingdom of Adventure: Everest" (p. 124), 1947.

George Leigh Mallory

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“I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.”
“I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.”

Source : "How to Age Like a Celebrity". Interview with Kate Schweitzer, www.marieclaire.com. July 15, 2010.
“It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.57, Oxford University Press
“I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?”
“Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.”

Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.91, Library of America
“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”

Source : Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.47, HarperCollins
“...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.”
“The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.”

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