"At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and griefâ€”or do they hound you till the bitter end?"

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Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.74, Macmillan

AndrÃ© Aciman

#Grief Quotes #Loss Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.”
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
“Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.”
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”

Source : Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.
“I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.”
“For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.”
“Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.38, Crown Business
“I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.”

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