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I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. ↗


— Freddy Fender


#i #lot #people #prison #separated

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. ↗


— John le Carre


#good #got #haven #i #immediately

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. ↗


— John le Carre


#average #conspiratorial #daily #daily life #employer

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗


— John le Carre


#away #both #community #his #i

I wonder if I could make an electric bass. ↗


— Leo Fender


#could #electric #i #i wonder #if i could

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct. ↗


— Leo Fender


#easy #repair #something

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ↗


— Francois Fenelon


#earthly #enjoyment #expectation #fruition #more

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗


— Francois Fenelon


#arrangement #choosing #composure #consists #few

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ↗


— Francois Fenelon


#his #more #nothing #professional #remedies

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself. ↗


— Joel A. Barker


#go #leader #person #place #will






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