"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."

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Source : Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.241, Faber & Faber

David Guterson

#Book Quotes #Successful Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.”
“If you understand it from an ecological or sustainability perspective, agriculture is the primary way we meet most of our needs, and it's the greatest form of human intervention on our environment. It has intimately shaped our culture as powerfully as industrial modernity, but for ten thousand years rather than two hundred.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.”
“One eye sees, the other feels.”

Source : Paul Klee (1964). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.310, Univ of California Press
“Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.”

Source : Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.
“I laughed all the way through Love Story.”
“Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.”

Source : 'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11
“I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.”

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