"I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books

Sloane Crosley

#Years Quotes #Noise Quotes #Complaints Quotes

“Its flattering that there are lots of Internet fan sites about me. Im a bit of a technophobe and I dont even own a laptop, but its probably a good thing Im not logged on, checking up on what everyone is saying about me.”
“Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.”

Source : "How to Hire Extraordinary People" by Leah Busque, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.
“Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.”
“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without meaning (a tale told by an idiot). I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in many ways and through many men and women, and that for us here in the West the clearest revelation is through Jesus and those that have followed him.”
“Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.”
“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”
“Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.”

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