"I guess people wouldn't say nasty things to my face. When you're kind of isolated, you don't really hear the gossip, or you're not really involved in it. You're here, and it's all going on over there."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Dasha Zhukova

#People Quotes #Gossip Quotes #Nasty Quotes

“Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.”
“So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people downâ€¦A real god doesnâ€™t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.274, Tor Books
“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.”

Source : "Herman Wouk to publish first memoir aged 100" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.
“I could kiss you in the rain forever Turn all your pain to pleasure Fill up all your days with sunlight Make the passion last every night Give you my every possesion Make you my only obsession Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above But I could never love you enough”
“It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, p.99, Vintage
“Cycling is not a sport it's a lifestyle.”
“... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, Iâ€™m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.”
“Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you”

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