"Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,"

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Source : "Tim Waterstone: 'If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it'" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2013.

Tim Waterstone

#Lying Quotes #Grotesque Quotes

“I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.”
“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”
“I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.”
“It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.”
“I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.”
“The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.”
“I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.”
“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”

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