"It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me."

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Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation

Mary Antin

“Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.”
“In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.”
“I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.”
“Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.”
“I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.”
“In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.”
“If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.”
“I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.”

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