"Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet."

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Source : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.

E. V. Lucas

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“Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.”
“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”
“Ive made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.”
“I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.”
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”
“There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.”
“A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one.”
“Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.”

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