"Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big"

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Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

Lisa Genova

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“Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.”

Source : "An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford". Book by John W. Wallace, 1884.
“I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.”
“We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.”
“He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.”
“You don't have to be educated to be a president.”
“The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didnâ€™t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for meâ€¦ the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madnessâ€”I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didnâ€™t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.”
“Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.”
“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”

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