"I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them."

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Source : "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

J. Robert Lennon

#Book Quotes #Annoyed Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Iâ€™ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time â€“ that youâ€™re where youâ€™re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove youâ€™d be better off somewhere else? If youâ€™d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe youâ€™d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, youâ€™re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe Iâ€™ll make you fall in love with economics.”
“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere”
“The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses”
“The stratosphere is a hostile place.”
“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
“Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.”
“I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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