"People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide."

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Source : FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Nov 11, 2013

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life - which is life in the presence of the Father and the Son. There are many among us, even members of the Church, who feel that there is no need for haste in the observance of Gospel principles and the keeping of the commandments.”
“I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.”
“The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.”
“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.22, Hachette UK
“I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.”
“It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.”
“Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?”

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