"things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat."

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Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.37, Feminist Press at CUNY

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#Sweat Quotes #Cost Quotes #Taste Quotes

“The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.”
“I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good response to that. I can hardly dispute it since I was walking around with a syringe to kill Peeta when I found them. Do I really want him dead? What I want...what I want is to have him back.”
“To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.”
“The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there.”
“Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.”
“That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.”
“People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.”
“We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.”

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