"my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news."

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Sarah Orne Jewett

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“There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.”
“There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'”
“To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.”
“I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.”

Source : "'I'm not some Yank who wants to make a profit. I just want to see Spurs succeed'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2008.
“Prepare to win, or lose to someone who is.”
“The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nationâ€“not the advertised oneâ€“and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, thereâ€™s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just donâ€™t care enough”
“Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.”
“I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

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