"Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason."

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Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.118, Delacorte Press

Melanie Benjamin

#Age Quotes #Reason Quotes #Etiquette Quotes

“Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.”

Source : Source: www.americansuburbx.com
“The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.”
“I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.”
“I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”

Source : "McConnell: ‘You’ll regret this’" by Ramsey Cox, thehill.com. November 11, 2013.
“I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish”

Source : Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962
“What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.”
“And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.”

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