"In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

Amy Waldman

#Redemption Quotes #Walking Quotes

“It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.”
“It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.”
“Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.”
“It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.”
“The majority of Arab people would side with Russia and China, not with the West. And they'd throw their 'elites' groomed in and by the West, straight out the window.”
“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”
“The amateur tweets. The pro works.”
“I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!”

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