Chungang Quotes & Sayings

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) — Jack McClelland

Skepticism is luxury. — Patricia Gaffney

.....a miracle has the right to impose conditions. — Jorge Luis Borges

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much. — Reggie Bush

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners. — Anthony Daniels

I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm the kind of guy who just randomly gets in fights. Yeah, I do it all the time. But, not really. — Robert Pattinson

Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing. — Leo Tolstoy

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are. — Loretta Lynch

With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so. — Robert Greene

My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus. — Oscar Arias