"We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art."

-- Michael Korda

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”
“When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.”
“If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.”
“Itâ€™s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
“The steady state of disks is full.”
“Love is Stronger. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.”

Source : Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.375, Penguin UK
“We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.”
“God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself, nor try To make it, as the lucky fellow might A close monopoly by patent-right.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1864). “Poems”, p.184

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