"People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories arenâ€™t just fantasies, you know. Theyâ€™re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life."

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Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

Mahbod Seraji

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”

Source : "The Luminaries". Book by Eleanor Catton, August 2013.
“A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.”
“Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.”
“I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.”
“Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish”
“The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.”
“We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'”

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