"Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves."

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Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

Nan Fairbrother

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“I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.”
“You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”
“I am a man of my wordâ€¦ and that word is â€œunreliable.”
“So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.”
“In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.”
“There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.”
“She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.”
“Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.”

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