"You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion."

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Source : Nancy Kress (2009). “Steal Across the Sky”, p.12, Macmillan

Nancy Kress

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“Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.”
“For me, fashion begins in New York.”
“All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.”
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”

Source : Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.49, Conari Press
“A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.”
“The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.”

Source : The Christian Year "Morning" (1827)
“Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.”
“It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.”

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