"The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time."

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Raymond Chandler

#Writing Quotes #Style Quotes #Investment Quotes

“It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.”
“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Source : "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.
“I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.12, Princeton University Press
“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”

Source : "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners Don't Understand How Vulnerable Freedom Is'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2011.
“You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.”
“In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.”
“Success in life is becoming what you want to be.”
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

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