"A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Fall Quotes #Night Quotes #Men Quotes

“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
“I always make decisions with the facts so I would look to make an early decision with the benefit of the facts.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press
“So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.”
“General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.”

Source : The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 26
“I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.”
“Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.”

Source : "Quote for the Day II". The year 1979 quote, www.theatlantic.com. January 09, 2007.

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