I tell you these stories because these things happen to eve… - Maira Kalman

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I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It’s not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It’s about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It’s about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

Maira Kalman

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Jump right in, or wade in slowly.
Advantage to one, it's over quickly.
Advantage to the other, it isn't.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

Some people, surely, die on the way to something.

Then we call them the late so-and-so.

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It’s not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It’s about having ears… - Maira Kalman

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