Traffic Controllers Quotes by Lisa Alther

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
• What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
• Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
• Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
• I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all…
• Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
• It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published…
• One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and…
• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the…
• We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
• If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating…
• That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people…

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