"A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about."

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Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.206, The Overlook Press

Joseph Roth

#Book Quotes #World Quotes

“I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.”
“I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.”
“Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.”
“I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”

Source : "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.
“What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?”
“If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.”

Source : Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”
“What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?”
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”

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