"Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Margaret Halsey

#People Quotes #Growth Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.”
“Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful,”
“What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
“Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.”
“I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather”
“The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.”
“May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.”

Source : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.132, A&C Black

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