"We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent."

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Source : "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

Maj Sjowall

#Lying Quotes #Night Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.”
“When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'”
“Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.”
“I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.”

Source : Steven Brust (2011). “Tiassa”, p.128, Macmillan
“Advertising is the very essence of democracy.”
“But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.”
“This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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