"I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete."

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Source : Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

Rachel Johnson

#Summer Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.”
“I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.”
“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”
“We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.”

Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.”
“The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.”
“Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.”
“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.”

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