"I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books."

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Jennifer Weiner

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Book Quotes

“When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.”
“I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.”
“Insanity is a lack of proportion.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
“Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.”
“For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.”
“My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.”
“The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city,”

Source : "Metropolis II: A Kinetic Sculpture That Circulates 100,000 Miniature Cars Every Hour", www.thisiscolossal.com. March 3, 2014.

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