"There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people."

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Source : Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

Jean Kerr

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Said Quotes

“I don't want my writing to be recognized.”
“I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.”
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
“I'm upset at myself. I should have had 50. I missed 13 free throws. That's unacceptable. If I want to be accepted by Wilt and Kareem and Russell I've got to start playing better than that. Right now I'm still in the class of Hakeem and David Robinson and that's not good enough for me. I want to be out there with the immortals.”
“I've spent every game I've ever played making sure I'm out-working the other guy.”
“I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.”
“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”
“It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.”

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