"To me, self-description is a calamity."

-- Jasper Johns

#Self Esteem Quotes #Self Quotes #Description Quotes

“Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction”
“The world is a wheel always turning.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”
“In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.”
“She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
“No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.”
“Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
“In 1978, in the space of 10 months, 28 leukemia patients came to me and they could all work after six days. It is a portal vein circulation disease, not cancer of the blood. So far 150 leukemia patients have come to me and I could help all of them. Do not fear this disease any more.”
“Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.”

Source : Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.87, Knopf

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