"The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful."

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Mary McCarthy

#Successful Quotes #Past Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You sell more when you stop selling.”

Source : David Meerman Scott (2016). “The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business”, p.116, John Wiley & Sons
“I'm easy to please and hard to satisfy.”
“And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.”
“O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.”
“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.”
“My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.”
“Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.”
“But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.”

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