“إن سعيت لإخفاء أصلك فلن يعود عليك ذلك إلا بالندم”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“إن الناس لا يحبون المتاجر الخالية ، هكذا كان يقول أبي ، إنهم يشعرون بداخلها بعدم الأمان”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“لا تسعى لخداع رجل مسن يعلم أن الموت لا يمكن أن يكون بعيدًا”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“يجب أن تعرض منتجاتك لا أن تبقى على أمل أن يراها الزبائن مصادفة”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“المعلومات أنها العمود الفقري لأي عمل”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“أن الشخص لا يستطيع أن يعيش بالخبز وحده”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“Granpa just groaned and said, “I don’t want you to end up workin’ in the East End, young ’un. You’re far too good to be a barrow boy for the rest of your life.” It made me sad to hear him speak like that; he didn’t seem to understand that was all I wanted to do.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“an apple is an apple whoever bites it.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“from around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“God bless the Scots and their puritan upbringing,”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from As the Crow Flies
“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“You feel you're learning everything about love as you watch him, from the other side. He imagines you leaving your cozy London world for a man in his thirties who has no real job, who still travels on buses, who's never found a firm footing with his life. The poet, the dreamer, and you would have fallen for it once. But you're too old, now. You just want to fuck.”
― Nikki Gemmell, quote from The Bride Stripped Bare
“She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title “Planned Parenthood.” That was a euphemism. “It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization,” she wrote.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties
“Working on a typewriter by touch, like riding a bicycle or strolling on a path, is best done by not giving it a glancing thought. Once you do, your fingers fumble and hit the wrong keys. To do things involving practiced skills, you need to turn loose the systems of muscles and nerves responsible for each maneuver, place them on their own, and stay out of it. There is no real loss of authority in this, since you get to decide whether to do the thing or not, and you can intervene and embellish the technique any time you like; if you want to ride a bicycle backward, or walk with an eccentric loping gait giving a little skip every fourth step, whistling at the same time, you can do that. But if you concentrate your attention on the details, keeping in touch with each muscle, thrusting yourself into a free fall with each step and catching yourself at the last moment by sticking out the other foot in time to break the fall, you will end up immobilized, vibrating with fatigue.
It is a blessing to have options for choice and change in the learning of such unconsciously coordinated acts. If we were born with all these knacks inbuilt, automated like ants, we would surely miss the variety. It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles. If we were all genetically programmed to play the piano deftly from birth, we might never learn to understand music.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
“Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.”
― Tony Judt, quote from Ill Fares the Land
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