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- Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
- Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
- Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
- Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970
- The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
- I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
- Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
- Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942
- To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
- Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
- When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
- The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
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