"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

-- Imogen Cunningham

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“As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.”
“The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.”
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
“Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of understanding the languages of all, as he re-establishes the bridge of authentic communication between earth and Heaven.”
“In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.”
“Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.”

Source : Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”
“A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.”

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