"I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray."

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Source : Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

Elizabeth Benedict

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hair Quotes

“I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.”
“If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.”
“I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.”
“Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.”

Source : Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235
“If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.”
“We have to be willing to do whatever it takes to win.”
“The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations.”
“A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

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