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"It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty."

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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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Donna Grant

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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Donna Grant

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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Donna Grant

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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Donna Grant

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age."

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"No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."

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"The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being."

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"Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition."

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Florida Scott-Maxwell
"It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty."

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"My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone."

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