"here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers."

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Source : Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

Sandra Tsing Loh

#Rain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”
“I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.”
“In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.”
“After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.”
“There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.”

Source : "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.
“It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.”
“All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.”
“I couldnâ€™t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.”

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