Best Quotes by John Lanchester (Top 6)
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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.
John Lanchester
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
John Lanchester
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The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
John Lanchester
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
John Lanchester
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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.
John Lanchester
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Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.
John Lanchester