"Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits."

-- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#Book Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
“It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.”
“I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.”
“Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.”
“Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.”
“Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.”
“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
“But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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