"I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's."

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Source : Peter Mayle (1992). “Acquired tastes”, Bantam

Peter Mayle

#Writing Quotes #Office Quotes

“Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”
“I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.”
“Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.”
“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
“I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.”
“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.”
“People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.”
“One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.”

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