"You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one."

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Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#Stupid Quotes #Pride Quotes #Proud Quotes

“Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”
“My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.”
“Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?”
“I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.”
“Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House
“I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.”
“There's no way that you can stop nature.”
“Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.”

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