"Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I."

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Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

E. L. Konigsburg

#Long Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.”
“The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.”
“I do enjoy a beer. And a shot of vodka with some apple juice is what loosens me up before I go onstage, because I get really nervous. I wish I could say it was something more healthy, like Pilates.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”

Source : Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin
“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”
“When people are not in a prison cell they believe they are free and happy. That's not true. Because in Istanbul, the modern person wakes up at 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock in the morning, gets on the bus for two hours to get to work, works at least ten hours, sometimes twelve or fourteen, then comes back home, just to make some money to pay for rent and food. That's not a human being's life. That's the life of a worm in the earth. That's the life of an insect.”
“I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.”
“I was very lucky. I was just finishing my PhD at Cambridge in 1981. This opportunity came up because whaling was drawing to an end. There was the prospect of a moratorium, and one of the arguments that was brought up, especially by Japanese whalers, was that, if we didn't have whaling, we would know nothing of whales. All the science depends on having dead animals, they argued, so that's one of the benefits of the whaling industry.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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