"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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"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."

Fred Saberhagen, American Author

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"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."

Arthur Levitt, American Public Servant

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"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."

Norman Ralph Augustine, American Author

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"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."

David Knopfler, British 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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"During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers."

Lawrence R. Klein, American Economist

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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be."

Michael Strahan, American Athlete

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"Every one lives by selling something."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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

Creativity

"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."

Creativity

"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."

Courage

"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."

Philosophy

"Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it."

Awareness

"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."

Self

"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there."

Warning

"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

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

Thought

"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"

Life