"The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver."

-- Kiran Desai

#World Quotes #Reader Quotes #Publishing Quotes

“Every potter praises his own pot.”
“There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.”

Source : Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.60, Penguin
“Luck is created by the prepared.”
“The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.”
“I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.”
“I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.”

Source : "Mommy Blues" by Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. February 21, 2005.
“You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.”
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”

Source : My Little Chickadee (motion picture) (1940) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Wilde 25; Wilde 53

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