“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”
Variant: It's much easier... to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
Source: The Book Thief
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Rumsfeld's Rules" January 12, 1974 http://library.villanova.edu/vbl/bweb/rumsfeldsrules.pdf
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“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”