"All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naÃ¯ve young boy really. With Peugeot, and especially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different,"

-- Eddy Merckx

#Boys Quotes #Advice Quotes #Different Quotes

“Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.”
“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.”
“Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.”
“I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?”
“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
“It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.”
“I read my books aloud before they were published.”
“I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.”

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