"After all a book can be represented as a conversation with oneâ€™s demon."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Book Quotes #Demon Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.”
“The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle.”
“Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave, it's all part of the business. Television and advertising have changed a great many things. In the old days, we used to make our money on the course. Now your market value is decided elsewhere.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.”
“Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”
“My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.”
“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK
“Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.”

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