"The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers."

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Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.129, The Floating Press

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#Brain Quotes #Fingers Quotes

“The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.”
“I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.”

Source : Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.
“If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”
“I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.”
“Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.”
“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”
“At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.”

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