"Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand."

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Dennis Lehane

#Fiction Quotes

“Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”
“I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.”
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
“I don't like programming. It's tedious.”

Source : "Why the father of PHP doesn’t like programming". DevBeat conference, venturebeat.com. November 13, 2013.
“It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.”
“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
“If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.”
“Half the people said that their lives had become better after a life crisis as a result of changes they made; some said the benefits and downsides balanced each other out; a smaller proportion said they never really recovered.”

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