"The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer."

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Source : 1928 Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#Writing Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.”

Source : Interview with Jefferson Hack, www.anothermanmag.com. June 7, 2017.
“Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity.”

Source : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (1992). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”
“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
“It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.”
“Because I wrote a book about Goldman Sachs. And I know that, from talking to people at Goldman Sachs, that Trump is the poster child for the kind of client they don't want to do business with, mainly because he would borrow all this money from Wall Street to build his casinos, and then didn't pay it back.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.”
“But, as Einstein once said, â€œFor we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.â€5”
“The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated”

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