Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres and one Winston Churchill

Aphorism 78: “The main requirement is simple endurance!”

Full Quote: “At the quarry, it was easier to feel that the main requirement was simple endurance.” Jane Smiley, Chapter 32 of A Thousand Acres, 1991, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Aphorism 77: “Accept the gifts that you have been given!”

Full Quote: “The lesson I could not seem to learn was how to refuse the gifts I was to be given.” Chapter 32, Smiley, see 78 above

Aphorism 76: “A blur, that blessing of urban routine!”

Full Quote: “Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine.” Chapter 42, Smiley, see 78 above.

Aphorism 75: “A guide to a man is his conscience!” Winston Churchill from his eulogy to Neville Chamberlain.