"Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options."

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Source : Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

Ellen Goodman

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.”
“Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.”
“It's so difficult to shock America these days.”
“I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.”
“The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.”

Source : "Apple Confirms It's Buying Beats For $3 Billion" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. May 28, 2014.
“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.”
“The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

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