"When will people learn that just because you can make something doesnâ€™t mean you should?"

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Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.170, Hachette UK

Sara Gruen

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“My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. Â The big design problem is designing your life.Â It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. Â You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.”
“He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.”
“I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.”
“Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game.”
“moral vanity is the snare of good people.”
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
“When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.”
“I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.”

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