"there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues."

-- Mario Puzo

#Enemy Quotes #Faults Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“Iâ€™m really not hungry,â€ she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. â€œJust a few bites,â€ he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. â€œYou need to keep up your strength for tonight.â€ She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. â€œWhy? Are you planning something special?â€ â€œI suppose I am,â€ he said consideringly. â€œItâ€™s special every time we make love.”
“Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.”
“I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.”
“I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau". Interview With Heather Scott Partington, electricliterature.com. March 12, 2015.
“If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.”
“[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.”
“The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.”

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