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Years later I would read Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder: “Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.” *
“No surprise. Idiots make it into every company. They tend to interview well.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for the way things are; that to improve things, we should pray. But the truth is, we are very much responsible for the badness in the world. And we have the power to fix it.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Because while musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren’t. And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special - it’s just annoying.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
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