"Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way."

-- Percy Knauth

#Airplane Quotes #Airports Quotes #Years Quotes

“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”
“I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.”
“Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.”
“I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.”
“As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?”
“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”
“Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn”
“They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere”

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