"It turns out we're very good at not seeing things"

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Source : Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2012.

Jack Hitt

#Very Good Quotes #Turns Quotes

“jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.”
“I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a book is published is never as happy as the feeling of writing, of knowing you've written something good, of feeling like you've had a worthwhile day in the chair. That's the best feeling I know, and as soon as writing stops making me feel that way, I'll stop doing it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.”
“Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about”

Source : Salvatore Ferragamo, Victoria and Albert Museum (1987). “Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960”
“. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .”
“I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.”

Source : Fay Weldon (1993). “Life Force”
“The market for nonsense is infinite.”
“Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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