"If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction."

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Glen Duncan

#Fiction Quotes #Want Quotes #Entertainment Quotes

“Put life into living, and do it with enthusiasm!”
“My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.”
“Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.”

Source : "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.
“Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.”
“Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be... how you want to feel.”
“All my favorite artists are downtempo - Portishead, Burial, a lot of 1990s trip-hop. Some people are saying that I'm trying to help with the trip-hop revival that's possibly going on, but I'm not aware of other artists that are necessarily doing that. But if they are, that's fantastic. It's a great medium of electronic music. There's a lot of emotion - it's good for soundtracking a late-night drive.”
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”

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