"The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Book Quotes #Mean Quotes #Students Quotes

“Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.”
“If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.”
“God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.”
“At once i knew i was not magnificent.”

Source : "Song: 'Holocene'". 2011.
“Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.”
“It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.”
“New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count”
“I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.”

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