"Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of Â£300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic."

-- John Lanchester

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“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”
“I wonâ€™t tell you how I managed to break in, since I donâ€™t want the authorities figuring out, but letâ€™s just say that if youâ€™re going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground.”
“Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.”
“There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.”
“It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.”
“Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.”
“Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.”
“I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.”

Source : "B.S. Report", grantland.com. March 1, 2012.

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