"None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on."

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James Purdy

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.”
“When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.”
“I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.”
“I have a lot of new music that I'm very excited about.”

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“Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.”
“Iâ€™m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. Itâ€™s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, â€˜Donâ€™t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.â€™”
“I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."”
“My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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