There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ()A good novel editor is invisible.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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There are two ways to think about what money buys. There's the standard of living, which can be measured in dollars, and there's the quality of your life, which can't be measured at all.

Bill Bonner

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Jane Austen

Every whore needs a man that could turn her into a beautiful swan...

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What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

Gregory Maguire

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Alan Lampkin

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Daniel Dennett