"It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop."

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Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2011). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.15, Multnomah

Robin Jones Gunn

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“You know every time you change a decade, it's a problem, because you approach the end little by little. But my decision is to keep going. The problem is always to know when the head doesn't work well. Someone has to tell you. I hope my children will tell me.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“I don't invest in rich kids' businesses.”
“Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.”
“The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.”
“The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.”
“We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.”

Source : Virginia McKenna, Will Travers, Jonathan Wray (1987). “Beyond the bars: the zoo dilemma”, Sterling Pub Co Inc
“A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'”
“Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.”

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