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Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.
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To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Anita Shreve
Born:
October 7, 1946
Died:
March 29, 2018
(aged 71)
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Anita Shreve was an American writer.
Known for:
The Pilot's Wife (1998)
Fortune's Rocks: A Novel (1999)
The Weight of Water (1997)
The last time they met (2001)
Sea Glass (2002)
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