"If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself."

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John le Carre

#Laughing Quotes #World Quotes

“We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.”
“I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.”

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“When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.”
“One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.”
“When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.”
“Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.”
“I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.”
“Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.”

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