"How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone."

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Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

Andrew Sean Greer

#Secret Quotes #Shakes Quotes

“Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.”

Source : Robert J. Sternberg (2011). “College Admissions for the 21st Century”, p.86, Harvard University Press
“The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.”
“I want to be a soldier as my father was.”
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
“When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.”
“But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.”
“While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.”

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