[PW] ? Quotations from Bowdoin Alumni (Quotation Query #650)

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

The Samuelson quote seems to have came out with scrambled letters. The correct wording is below. 

"Now I’m down to 70 or 80," she said. "That’s all I can do." [explaining why, at 50 years of age, she no longer runs 120 miles a week] -Frank Litsky, New York Times, Marathon Matriarch Is Still in the Race, published April 13, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/sports/othersports/13benoit.html 





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"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of 
quotations beautiful from minds profound — if I can remember 
any of the damn things."
-Dorothy Parker, "The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)