"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Names Quotes #Luck Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?”

Source : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Tiger L.L.C.
“To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.”
“I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.”
“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.”
“For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.”
“I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.”
“We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told.Â We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.”
“But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.”

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