#rage

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #before #book #doing #each

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#comes #compromise #dignity #failure #having

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #bear #bewildered #bizarre #design

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. ↗

— Barton Booth

#grief #miracle #passions #rage #touch

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#accepted #away #became #bestseller #book

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ↗

— Albert Claude

#common #courage #equilibrium #ethics #faith

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#both #humor #insult #often #powerful

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#burgeoning #business #businessmen #cost #discourage