Maggie Shipstead quotes
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“Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”
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“How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”
-- Maggie ShipsteadSource : Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage
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“Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.”
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“With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.”
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“I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.”
-- Maggie ShipsteadSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.”
-- Maggie ShipsteadSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.”
-- Maggie ShipsteadSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.”
-- Maggie ShipsteadSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.”
-- Maggie ShipsteadSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.”
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Source : Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
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“The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.”
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“One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...”
Source : Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.186, Penguin
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“Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.”
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“If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.”
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“Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?”
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