"Can you rework your past, the grit that……" — Anna Funder

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until… - Anna Funder

"Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?"

— Anna Funder

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16 Quotes by Anna Funder

Anna Funder has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is…
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us…
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside…
I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the…
I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is…
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We…
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the…
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties…

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More Grit Quotes

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Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. — Jeff Bridges
You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down -… — Chris Christie
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. — Yasser Arafat
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of… — B. C. Forbes
That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win… — Lleyton Hewitt
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to… — Jonah Lehrer
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of… — B. C. Forbes
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go… — Georges Bernanos
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. — John Wayne
We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to… — Harold S. Kushner
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is… — Diane Sawyer
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress

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