"My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived."

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Martin Amis

#Paper Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I guess we romanticize the loser.”
“The land is oursâ€: that is pretty much the end of the debate. â€œI will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel,”
“As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.”
“Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.”
“You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?”
“Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.”
“There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.”
“Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.”

Source : Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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