"A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Irving Thalberg

#Looks Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.”
“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.”
“When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.”
“Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Wild Rose”, p.235, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Familiarity seems to breed contempt”
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.”
“A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325

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