Quotes
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Jaclyn Moriarty

"I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you."

-- Jaclyn Moriarty

#Lying Quotes #Cutting Quotes #White Quotes

“At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.”
“We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.”
“I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.”

Source : DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.71, Faber & Faber
“We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.”
“My history's not very good, but did David win?”
“Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.”
“My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.”
“According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.”

Source : Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.206, Penguin

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