"Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food."

-- Alain de Botton

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“Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.”

Source : Joan Anderson (2011). “A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman”, p.33, Broadway Books
“The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.”
“We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.”
“I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.”
“Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.”
“People are generally good but easily corrupted.”
“I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I think people should be allowed to do what they want to do. I think that it doesn't make sense for a certain class to be able to get married and be treated differently when others are not. But I don't equate polygamy with same-sex marriages - and I know you don't either. Polygamy is a different story because it has different class differentiations in it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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