"â€¦made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless."

-- Nelson DeMille

#Drinking Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Promise Quotes

“"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.”
“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”
“A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England”
“Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.”
“"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."”
“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.”

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