"A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other."

-- Maureen Dowd

#Lasts Quotes #Source Quotes #Betray Quotes

“There's always someone out there telling you your nose is too big or too small, or you're too fat or too thin, or they don't like your hair. In life, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like something about you, so you have to focus on what makes you happy about yourself. You're the only person you need to please.”
“To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.”
“Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.”
“The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can.”
“This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.”

Source : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.231, New Directions Publishing
“It is easier to win love than to keep it.”
“I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.”
“I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier”

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