"Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isnâ€™t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we donâ€™t get along any more."

-- Mark Haddon

#Distance Quotes #Book Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.”
“The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it.”
“I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.”
“No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.”
“Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 29, 2013
“He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.”
“Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.”
“A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", 1971.

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