"It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?"

-- Ken Follett

#Book Quotes #Language Quotes

“You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.”
“...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2006). “Against the Grain: Easyread Large Edition”, p.361, ReadHowYouWant.com
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
“I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.”
“The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.”
“Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.”
“Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.”
“My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.”

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