"You are what you read."

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Esko Valtaoja

#Writing Quotes

“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”

Source : "The Big Book of Presidents: From George Washington to Barack Obama". Book by Nancy J. Hajeski, 2015.
“I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'”
“The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.”
“For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed...”
“There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.”

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