"That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears."

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Source : Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.653, Vintage

Anthony Lane

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“The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.”
“The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.”
“Tennis just a game, family is forever.”
“An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.”
“You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!”
“Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.”
“We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.”

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