"I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure."

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Source : Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Beatrice Sparks

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“Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.”
“Present thinking people kill the future.”
“The day that I can no longer receive Our Lord in Holy Communion, Our Lord Himself will come to take me.”
“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.”
“No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.”
“Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.”
“I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.”

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