"Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?"

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Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.8

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

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“One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.”
“I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.”
“I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.”
“In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.”
“There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.”
“And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.”
“I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.”
“Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.”

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