"Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?"

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Mary Ritter Beard

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“I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.”
“The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.”
“Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.”
“I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is.”
“When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.”
“Get a dream, hold on to it and shoot for the sky.”
“As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.”
“So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.”

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