"I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like oneâ€”at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better."

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Source : D.J. MacHale (2002). “The Merchant of Death”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

D. J. MacHale

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #May Quotes

“My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G.I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.”
“It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.”
“Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.”
“I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me. He gave me the words to defend myself and the argumentative rhetoric to master discussions with others.”
“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”
“I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.
“Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.”

Source : "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins" by Dirk Johnson, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2011.
“I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.”

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