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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.


J. K. Rowling


#been #executive #greek #greek mythology #hard

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.


Salman Rushdie


#facts #legends #make #more #reality

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.


Fred Saberhagen


#additional #advice #any #buy #could

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.


Sallust


#action #art #being #engaged #enjoy

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.


Jose Saramago


#according #am #degree #destinations #i

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.


John Ralston Saul


#armaments #civil #economy #extremely #fighting

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


#character #daring #energy #had #him

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.


Jenny Shipley


#final #frigates #got #government #life

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


#classes #few #fitted #necessity #ordinary

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.


Antonio Tabucchi


#choices #doubts #made #many #politicians