"If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate."

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Eli Broad

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“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”
“There is a place that God has specifically designed for you where all your needs will be supplied, where you'll be happy and fulfilled, and where you'll be using your gifts and talents to the full.”
“Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.”
“A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.”
“I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.”
“It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.”
“I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface tremblingâ€”it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.”

Source : James Salter, Robert Phelps (2010). “Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps”, p.25, Counterpoint Press
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”

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