"I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jonathan Santlofer

#Responsibility Quotes #Double Standard Quotes #Betrayed Quotes

“What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?”
“Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.”
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
“A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.”

Source : Anthony Capella (2009). “The Wedding Officer”, p.305, Hachette UK
“I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.”
“A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.”
“If youâ€™re decent to others, then youâ€™re decent to yourself.”
“Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.”

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