My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were. - Elizabeth McCracken - Quotesmemo.com

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Elizabeth McCracken

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

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In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

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There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.

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Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

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The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

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I scored 1. 1 on my SAT, And still push a whip with a right and left AC.

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The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

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