"She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery."

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Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

David Nicholls

#Notebook Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Believe Quotes

“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”
“There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.42, University of Chicago Press
“As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.”

Source : Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.24, Papadakis Publisher
“While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.”

Source : Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.”
“I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.”
“Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.”
“If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. Itâ€™s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.”

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