"In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can."

-- David Leavitt

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“Silence is often advantageous.”
“I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.”
“I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating”
“I'm different now, but back then I used to be the type of guy who would say, â€œI like you. Do you also like me or not? No? Tell me the truth. I'll give you time to think about it!â€ But now This isn't a lie but I've had 3 girlfriends, and I've dated each of them for 3 years. When it comes to dating, I'm the type who would be with someone for a long time. Before we start dating, I'd keep watching her. It's because I hate being hurt. I tend to give my everything once I date”
“Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.”
“I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, Thats what I want to do for a living when Im older. Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.”
“Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward”

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