"I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love."

-- Peter James

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“Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, theyâ€™re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.”

Source : Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.”
“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”
“It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.”
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”

Source : Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.144, Baen Books
“Iâ€™m not being weird, youâ€™re being a little rude. Donâ€™t you think as a host, when I say â€˜this is what I want to talk aboutâ€™ thatâ€™s what we should address?”
“It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.”
“Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.”

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