"Never let reality get in the way of truth"

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Source : Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books

Pat Pattison

#Reality Quotes #Way Quotes

“My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.”
“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”
“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”
“A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.”
“I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.”
“I love traveling, but I hate planes.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.
“I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.”
“Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own... You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.”

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