"the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction."

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Helen McCloy

#Powerful Quotes #Delay Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.”

Source : "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.
“The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.”
“Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.”
“I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.”
“It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.”
“Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.”
“being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.”

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.209, Open Road Media
“Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.”

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