Lily Koppel Quotes

#1. Dodie could often be seen at the club, clutching a white terry-cloth towel in one hand, her cigarette holder in the other, as she pedaled away on one of the club's stationary bikes.

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#2. We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

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#3. John looked handsome in the photo of him in his

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#4. To live in books is cowardly
but people are not worth investigation.

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#5. Read until my eyes ached
it was hardly important
but proof again that there is always an escape.

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#6. America's space age was officially announced on April 9, 1959.

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#7. Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

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#8. Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged to her in a previous life.

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#9. Apollo 17 would be the sixth and final flight to the Moon. In total, the American space program had taken the work of two and a half million people and had cost nearly $25 billion.

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#10. There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

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#11. I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

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#12. Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

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#13. Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.

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#14. Where did all the creativity go?' she wondered aloud as she pondered the newly rediscovered story of her youth. 'If I was true to myself, would I have ended up living this ordinary life?

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#15. Soon after launching Sputnik in 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik II with its passenger Laika ("Barker," also known as Little Curly), the Soviet space dog. She was a female stray found on the streets of Moscow (and those godless Soviets let her die in orbit).

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#16. Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.

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#17. But not enough about the extraordinary day-to-day lives the wives experienced behind the scenes.

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#18. In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.

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#19. were, however, all consumed by a burning

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#20. How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

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