"It's [â€œInto Thin Airâ€] there in print forever.Â It's part of history.Â Â People should be above taking someone else down.Â Â And for what?Â Â For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers."

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David Breashears

#Careers Quotes #Air Quotes #People Quotes

“Tears are the messengers of true love.”
“I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”
“When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.”
“Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.”
“I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.”
“If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?”
“So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.”
“He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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