"I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it."

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Alice Mattison

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes

“You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.”
“You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.”

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“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
“One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.”
“I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.”

Source : "The Dawn Patrol" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. August 8, 2005.
“Itâ€™s true that someone will always say that good and evil donâ€™t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but itâ€™s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesnâ€™t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.”
“IfÂ you canâ€™t do anything about it, donâ€™t worry about it.”
“The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.”

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