"Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

Amy Waldman

“Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.”
“Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.”
“The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.”
“I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.”
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.”
“Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.”
“Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet.”

Source : "Why Would You Share A Secret With A Stranger?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 23, 2015.

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