"Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that."

--

Louis Auchincloss

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“I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.”
“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
“Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.”

Source : Source: thefootballgirl.com
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
“Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.”
“You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.”

Source : "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.
“I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.”
“Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.”

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