Culture Quote by Elizabeth Berg

“Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.”

Elizabeth Berg

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Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

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“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”

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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

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“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.”

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“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep…

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“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.”

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People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

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“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers…

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Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you…

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“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I…

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*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone…

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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