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My parents have been married for thirty-five years. They have raised two children and run a successful bookstore together. They have two adorable grandchildren. One of their daughters is taking over the family business. They have a lot to ...more
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Ross King
“Everyone was agreed that the master looked energetic and youthful—sixty rather than eighty. “He provides striking evidence,” wrote Alexandre, “of the inanity of what used to be called the age limit.”
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

Adam M. Grant
“Best practices suggest that the ideal routines are already in place. If we want people to keep rethinking the way they work, we might be better off adopting process accountability and continually striving for better practices.”
Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Ross King
“The two men discussed in lip-smacking detail “pike with white butter, grilled red mullet under vine leaves, and the fresh saltiness of Breton oysters in their grey shells.”
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

Ross King
“Clemenceau knew, was to keep his friend’s spirits high. “What more could one ask for?” he wrote to him in September. “You’ve had the best life that a man could dream of. There’s an art to leaving as well as to entering.”
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

Ross King
“The story may also have drawn on comments by the Japanese artist Hokusai, who in old age (he lived to eighty-nine) signed his works “The Old Man Mad About Painting.” “I have drawn things since I was six,” Hokusai supposedly reported. “All that I made before the age of sixty-five is not worth counting. At seventy-three I began to understand the true constructions of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects. At ninety I will enter into the secret of things. At a hundred I shall certainly have reached a magnificent level. And when I am a hundred and ten, everything—every dot, every dash—will live.”
Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

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