"You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything."

-- David Auburn

#Running Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Book Quotes

“I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.”
“Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?”
“I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.”

Source : Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.86, Open Road Media
“As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.”
“If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.”
“Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.”
“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.”
“The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.”

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