"Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it."

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Lee Child

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Shy Quotes

“Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.”
“Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.”
“Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?”
“The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.”

Source : Nigel Calder (1969). “Violent universe: an eye-witness account of the commotion in astronomy 1968-69”
“Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.”
“It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.”
“Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1955). “The American Story”, p.393, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.”

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