"I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them."

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John Banville

#Would Be Quotes #Critical Quotes

“I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.”
“What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?”
“I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.”
“No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence.”

Source : S. Truett Cathy (1989). “It's Easier to Succeed Than to Fail”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“I always want my standup act to appeal to everybody in the room, and when I started standup, and I would see people talk about their kids and their wife, and I'd always cringe a little bit, like, 'I can't get a date, I don't know what you're talking about.'”
“During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.”
“A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception.”
“Why doesn't Prin go and get her own ***** blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?”

Source : Margaret Laurence (1974). “The Diviners”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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