Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge
You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect."
Postcards from the Edge (1987)
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
I Never Had It Made (1972) by Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett; excerpted in "Why 'I Never Had It Made': Jackie Robinson's Own Story," http://www.mediafire.com/view/bkybh5wfo9zf32o Newsday (November 5, 1972)
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