"I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air."

-- David Rockefeller

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“I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.”
“Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.”
“I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.”
“What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.”
“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

Source : David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Harvill Secker
“Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.”
“Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
“I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.”

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