"What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves."

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Source : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Patricia Marx

#Giving Quotes #Shelves Quotes

“Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.”
“For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace”
“We just all need to stick together and unite, be together and support one another.”
“If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.”
“The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.”
“A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.”
“Most of my stories have some basis in fact.”
“The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.”

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