"Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them."

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Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.75, U of Nebraska Press

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Girl Quotes #Dating Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.”
“There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.”
“I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?”
“We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufﬁciency.”
“What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”
“My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.”
“Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.”
“Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.”

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