"Writers are always selling somebody out."

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"Writers are always selling somebody out."

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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."

Josh Silver, American Musician

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"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."

Sinclair Lewis, American Novelist

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"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Selling, Care

"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."

William Petty, English Economist

Selling, Banks, Buying, Interest

"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Selling, Right

"Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up."

Don Henley, American Musician

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"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."

Rudy Rucker, American Scientist

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"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."

Carolyn McCarthy, American Politician

Selling, Children, Commonsense, Country

"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages."

Matt Gonzalez, American Politician

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Explore more quotes by Joan Didion

"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream."

Dream, Listening, Writer

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

Fear, Thinking, Want

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Thought, Writing

"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."

Power, Grammar, Play

"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."

Philosophy, Angels, Mind, Production, Will

"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

Thought, Forget

"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."

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"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."

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"Writers are always selling somebody out."

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"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."

Power, Americans, Possessions