"I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book."

-- Helene Hanff

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mediocre Quotes

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.”
“When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.”

Source : "Le Freak, C'est Chic: Die Antwoord Fronts Alexander Wang's T Campaign" by Nick Axelrod, www.elle.com. April 26, 2012.
“Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2005). “Smoke and Shadows”, p.97, Penguin
“Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
“It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.”
“Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness”
“All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less”
“Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.”

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