Therese Anne Fowler quotes:
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Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.
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... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.
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A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.
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Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
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If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.
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If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.
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There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.
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There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.