"And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when youâ€™re losing money year after year... thatâ€™s not life even, thatâ€™s like death. Thatâ€™s eternal damnation."

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Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008). “The Off Season”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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“I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.”
“I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.”
“I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.”
“We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.”
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
“I do not regret one moment of my life.”
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer â€˜Tomorrow,â€™ his name is today.”

Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.
“When you go on an audition it's very frightening.”

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