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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. ↗

— John Green

#attention #attention spans #become #bells #bells and whistles

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ↗

— Julien Green

#descends #earth #explorer #greatest #heart

I think I pick more winners than losers. ↗

— Philip Green

#i think #losers #more #pick #than

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that. ↗

— William Green

#building #doing #first #foremost #i

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#believer #big #big believer #body #deny

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#anything #bad #breakup #energy #hate

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. ↗

— Brian Greene

#doorstep #explore #finally #precision #put

I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#booked #came #certain #doors #even

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ↗

— Graham Greene

#coastline #dangerous #failure #more #over