"I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me"

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Source : Julian Clary (2011). “A Young Man's Passage”, p.176, Random House

Julian Clary

“Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.”
“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”
“God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.”
“Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.”
“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”
“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.”
“You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.”

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