"When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily."

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Source : James Lee Burke (2014). “In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

James Lee Burke

#Home Quotes #Air Quotes #People Quotes

“A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!”
“Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.”
“If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.”
“I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing
“I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.”
“I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.”

Source : "Edie: Girl on Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.”
“You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.”

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