"Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)"

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Source : Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

Lauren Weisberger

#Support Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Female Quotes

“I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'”
“To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.”
“It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.”
“He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]”
“If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.”
“That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.”
“Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors.”
“You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.”

Source : Chris d'Lacey (2011). “Fire Star”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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