Famous Shana Alexander Quotations

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"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice."
by Shana Alexander
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
by Shana Alexander
"Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell."
by Shana Alexander
"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."
by Shana Alexander
"Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start."
by Shana Alexander
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"
by Shana Alexander


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