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“After your jump, the net appears. - Vincent Lauria”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I still make coffee for two. - Zak Nelson”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. - Margaret Hellerstein”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Internal age doesn't match external age. - Carol Smith”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Followed white rabbit. Became black sheep. - Gabrille Maconi”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Love drama, just not my own. - Sam Zalutsky”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Never lived up to my potential. - Leslie Sterling”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I imagined more than office jobs. - Gretchen Vitamvas”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I live the perfect imperfect life. -Paul Lore”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I'm the fine print; read closely. -Kristina Grish”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Memory was my drug of choice. -Pea Hicks”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. -Margaret Hellerstein”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Her blue eyes
capture the distance.
-Sonya Cheuse”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Well, I thought it was funny. -Stephen Colbert”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Clichéd or not, her smile lit up the room like a ball of fired in a darkened sky. Clichés were created for her. End of story.”
― Gail McHugh, quote from Pulse
“My secret is that I choose to be the person that I want to be. That I don't believe in destiny or predetermination, but in choice, and that each of us chooses to be the person we are. Whatever you want to be you can be, whatever you want to do you can do, wherever you want to go you can go. The world, and the life ahead, is ours for the taking. The future is unwritten, and you can make it whatever you want it to be”
― James Frey, quote from The Calling
“Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Morrigan's Cross
“And so they lived for many a long year, as happy and lighthearted as the birds in the trees and the flowers on the hill in spring.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“The modern Berkshire Hathaway that he had created churned out new beads for the rosary almost like a clockwork. Buffett’s hunt for things to buy had become more ambitious, free of the cigar butts and lawsuits of the decades before. The great engine of compounding worked as a servant on his behalf, at exponential speed and under the gathering approval of a public gaze. The method was the same: estimate an investment’s intrinsic value, handicap its risk, buy using margin of safety, concentrate, stay in the circle of competence, let it roll as compounding did the work. Anyone could understand these simple ideas, but few could execute them. Even though Buffett made the process look effortless, the technique and discipline underlying it actually did involve an enormous amount of work for him and his employees. As”
― Alice Schroeder, quote from The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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