"By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior."

-- Jonah Goldberg

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Scary Quotes

“An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.”
“If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.”

Source : "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.
“To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.”
“The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.”
“The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.”

Source : Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press
“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.”
“The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.”
“Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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