"How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness."

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Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.174, Ballantine Books

Nancy Horan

#Effort Quotes #Trying Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.”
“I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night ...”
“The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.”
“I sign so many autographs, my hand hurts every day.”
“You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.”
“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
“'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.”
“Whenever we see something that we want to create, the first thing we bump into is these beliefs (reasons) that have shaped our experience thus far. And so the battle ensues. Possibilities vs. Limitations.”

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