"Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain can't. I can't think of any redeeming feature he has, but he's extremely compelling."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jonathan Dee

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Break Quotes

“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
“Despite a lingering low inventory and increasing prices, consumers still have the confidence to purchase a home. More and more people recognize the many opportunities in this market and the significant value of low interest rates. As job creation and wages continue to improve, many more first-time buyers are now making the decision to become homeowners.”
“Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.”

Source : Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”
“Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.”
“Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

Source : Scott Turow (2002). “Reversible Errors: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan
“The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.”

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