"In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her."

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Source : John O'Hara (1934). “Appointment in Samarra”

John O'Hara

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“From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.”
“I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not...I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman.”
“Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.”
“What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own”

Source : Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”
“If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.”
“If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.”
“I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.”
“I think at the end of the day you can do both: make money and stay true to yourself. But a lot of young people look for that fame that some of these huge artists that they see on TV have, not knowing they can do what some of these underground artist are doing which is not selling their souls for a buck.”

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