"Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you."

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Source : Greg Cox, Electric Entertainment (2013). “The Bestseller Job”, p.71, Penguin

Greg Cox

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“The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?”
“A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.”
“I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.”
“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
“One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.”
“L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.”
“Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.”
“There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.”

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