Mary Schmich Quotes

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• Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
• I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I…
• Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour…
• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
• In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you…
• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people…
• Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.…
• Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were…
• Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it
• Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft
• Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other…
• Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
• On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get…
• Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either…
• A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt,…
• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul,…
• For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
• Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a…

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