"Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart."

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Source : Don Winslow (2012). “The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Don Winslow

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“Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.”
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
“As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.”
“I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress.”
“The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.”
“In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.”
“We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.”
“To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.”

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