"What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold."

-- John Updike

#Believe Quotes #Book Quotes #What Matters Quotes

“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.”
“It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.”
“Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.”
“When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.”
“I wish," Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. "Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn't real? Sometimes I wish that was true. If I was just a thought in the back of your mind, then I'd be with you, and I'd be better.”
“The truly civilized man has no enemies.”

Source : "The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion". Book by Charles Fletcher Dole, 1902.
“What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.”
“All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.”

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