"I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out."

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Stephanie Gilmore

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“Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.”
“I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,”
“If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.”
“The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.”
“Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are...”
“A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."”
“Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.”
“Try to capture what you can't bear to be without”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.29, The Overlook Press

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