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Mary Schmich

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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.


— Mary Schmich


#nostalgia #life

Advice is a form of Nostalgia


— Mary Schmich


#nostalgia #sunscreen #life

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.


— Mary Schmich


#come and go #few #friends #get #go

Barbie is just a doll.


— Mary Schmich


#doll #just

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.


— Mary Schmich


#either #else #expect #fund #know

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.


— Mary Schmich


#other #people #put #reckless #those

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.


— Mary Schmich


#favorite #life #map #maps #people

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.


— Mary Schmich


#average #day #deeper #done #down

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.


— Mary Schmich


#closets #costume #day #drawers #dress

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.


— Mary Schmich


#admire #extent #function #love #see






About Mary Schmich






Did you know about Mary Schmich?

A. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent based in Atlanta. from Pomona College.

About four times a year Schmich and fellow Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn write a week of columns that consist of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. Born in Savannah Georgia the oldest of eight children Schmich grew up in Georgia attended high school in Phoenix Arizona and earned a B. In addition to writing her column Schmich was the author of the long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr from 1985 through its final appearance in January 2011 and has worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player.

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