"She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it."

-- Abraham Verghese

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“In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.”
“Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain.”
“Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?”

Source : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.30, Stenhouse Publishers
“I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.”
“Femininity and sport can go together.”
“Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men”
“Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.”
“Surely love is both work and wages.”

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