"When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing."

-- W. S. Di Piero

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“And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.”
“Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.”
“One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.”
“I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".”
“There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.”
“Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.”
“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”
“A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.”

Source : Michael E. Gerber (2009). “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies”, p.26, Harper Collins

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