"I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street."

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Source : "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

Henry Kravis

#Summer Quotes #New York Quotes #Wall Quotes

“First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.”
“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”

Source : Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.38, The Overlook Press
“Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.”
“There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .”
“Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.”
“The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the worldâ€™s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if thereâ€™s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because youâ€™ve nothing better to do.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
“I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.”

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