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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
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"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."
"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."
"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."
"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
"In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice."
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"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
"My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead."
"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
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