"For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness."

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Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.10, Vintage

Jenny Offill

#Years Quotes #Kind Quotes #Notes Quotes

“Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests.”
“But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.”
“I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.”
“Perspective is the cure for depression.”
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
“My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.”
“The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.”

Source : Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2007.

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