"There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching."

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Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

Michael Longley

#Believe Quotes #Puff Quotes #World Quotes

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.”
“There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.”
“Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.”
“It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.”
“If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.”
“Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.”
“I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.”
“So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.”

Source : Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, M.D. (2006). “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour”, p.9, Crown Archetype

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