"In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice."

-- Charles Lamb

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“Wouldn't it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry?”
“Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.”
“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.”
“I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.”
“Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.”
“Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.”
“The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.”
“When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.”

Source : Howell Raines (1994). “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis”, Anchor

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