"If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Thinking Quotes #Example Quotes #Wasting My Time Quotes

“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.”
“A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.”
“Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.”
“Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'”
“Self-creation is the highest art.”
“Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either.”

Source : Gordon Tullock (1987). “Autocracy”, p.20, Springer Science & Business Media
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
“Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereâ€™s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.”

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