"I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?"

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Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.15, Beacon Press

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Done Quotes

“I said I love you and that's forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.”
“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

Source : Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone
“It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.”
“Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.”
“It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.”
“Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.”
“You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.”
“Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.”

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