"What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?"

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Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”

Bette Greene

#Giving Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Dreams, books, are each a world.”
“I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.”
“Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.”
“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.”
“I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed moustache.”
“My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.”
“I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.”
“I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.”

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