"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving."

-- Erica Jong

#Talking Quotes #Years Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com
“When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.”
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

Source : 1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.
“One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.”
“I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.”
“Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.”

Source : Ken Auletta (2011). “Hard Feelings: Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City”, p.413, Random House
“President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.”
“People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.”

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