"Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again."

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Source : Rachel Simon (2013). “Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rachel Simon

#Way Quotes #Fields Quotes #Destination Quotes

“Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?”
“I think the world tries to put people in a box, like this is the only appropriate way to be beautiful.”
“I don't give players a chance to hit me.”
“After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.”
“I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.”

Source : "Ferraro Recounts Second Thoughts On Her Nomination, Citing Scrutiny" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 1984.
“I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.”
“We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.”

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