"There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too."

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Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.155, Open Road Media

Alison Lurie

#Thinking Quotes #Choices Quotes #Want Quotes

“Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.”
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”
“Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?”
“I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.”
“Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.”
“The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.”

Source : "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews". Book edited by Malcolm Cowley, First Series, New York: Viking Press, p. 261, 1959.
“An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.”
“Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.”

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