"You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled."

-- Derek Landy

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“Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.”
“They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.”

Source : Source: blankonblank.org
“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”

Source : Peter Behrens (2007). “The Law Of Dreams”, p.356, Canongate Books
“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.”

Source : "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". 1976.
“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.”
“Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.”
“How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?”

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