"A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer."

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Self Quotes #Advertising Quotes

“Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.”

Source : Dale Evans Rogers (1971). “DALE My Personal Picture Album”
“Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”
“When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.”
“I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.”
“The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.”
“I like the fansâ€™ sound at night. Do you? Itâ€™s like somebody big far away goes like: itâ€™sOKitâ€™sOKitâ€™sOKitâ€™sOK, over and over. From very far away.”
“Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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