"There is no one who would have me - I can't cook."

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Source : Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

Greta Garbo

“While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.”
“It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.”
“My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.”
“Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.”
“A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.”
“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.”
“I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.”
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”

Source : "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese. Chapter 6: "My Abyssinia", 2009.

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