"I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel"

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Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

Gay Talese

#New York Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.”

Source : "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair". Interview With Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
“It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.”
“I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.”
“The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.”
“You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.”

Source : "3 Reasons Your Diet Isn’t Working" by Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2012.
“Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.”
“One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.”
“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”

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