“If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.”
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”
“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.”
“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”
“How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly.”
“There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second pitch-black.”