"And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got."

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Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.146, Penguin

Kate Jacobs

“I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.”
“Good givers are great getters.”
“It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.”
“The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad ShÄmlu was a man was important to his work as a poet. Basically, gender shouldn't be viewed as an advantage in art. If a poem or a piece of writing is good, what difference does it make whether it's by a woman or a man? And, if it's bad, why should its writer's gender make it good?”
“Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.”

Source : hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”
“Ð¦hat is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.”
“Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?”
“The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.”

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