"It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.”
“A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.”
“Think of the man who first tried German sausage.”
“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”
“Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.”
“I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.”

Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.”

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