"I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas)."

-- Markus Zusak

#Morning Quotes #Brother Quotes #Memories Quotes

“I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.”
“For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.”
“Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.”
“And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.”
“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.”
“The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.”
“...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small...”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.382, The Book Foundation

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