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Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.        -Mary Schmich       Smile and wave, thumbs up, camera click, wipe the sweat from your brow, no stand this way, closer, closer and camera click again, smile […]

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fan mail

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. – Mary Schmich Before this month of frenetic writing I don’t think […]

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walk away

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. – Mary Schmich   21st November 2009, Melbourne     Dear Dad,   Well it’s been ages […]

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mirror, mirror

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. – Mary Schmich Striking through this awful fury was the sound of breaking glass.   She realised that she’d smashed the mirror that hung above their bed, her bed, with the flung heel of her boyfriend’s left behind dress shoe.   Seven years […]

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mother's soliloquy

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. – Mary Schmich     I’ve been waiting and dreading And yet also dreaming of the day You would ask me this question.   The day you would come to me for advice, Flushed and heady, sparkling eyes, Full of that somebody new.   What will […]

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  Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your livingroom. -Mary Schmich   Ladies and gentlemen… today I am taking a small break from our regularly scheduled programming… but it couldn’t be more pertinent, even if I had tried.   I’d like to dedicate today’s post to a very dedicated little girl.   Who […]

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the egg convo

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own. – Mary Schmich     Gawd remember how contorted we used to get in the back seat of your Cortina?   Yeah…what was that colour called […]

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Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s. – Mary Schmich     […]

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non formatted knee

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone. –Mary Schmich    …drink all the cow juice you want but it wont stop the dickhead in front of you who slams on his brakes for no apparent reason which makes you slam on your brakes in order to avoid […]

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Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t. – Mary Schmich   Fek me Mary! I don’t like where this […]

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