"Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home."

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Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1950). “The Bess Streeter Aldrich reader”

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Home Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.”

Source : In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4
“When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.”
“Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.”
“He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.”
“If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.”
“The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.”
“Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.”
“You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.”

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