"Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising."

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Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

Tracy Chevalier

#Long Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.”
“Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.”
“From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.”
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.”
“Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.”
“I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.”
“My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one”
“Congratulations is the civility of envy.”

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