Christmas Every Day

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

–Donald Trump

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

— Ernest Hemingway

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
— Chuck Palahniuk

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

— Gore Vidal

“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”

— Nelson Algren

Always stand up when you’re making a difficult phone call. It gives you confidence.

— Christopher Middleton

Something that I learned through experience, after a bad relationship. People treat you according to how you ALLOW yourself to be treated. You can always say ‘no’ or walk away. Don’t be a victim. Don’t whinge. Deal with it or get out.

— Santa Sebag Montefiore

Eat a big elephant piece by piece. I say it to myself several times a day. It calms me down and lets me attend to what is in front of me rather than become overwhelmed by the big picture.

– Skye Gyngell

It actually came from my father. He said “Never do business with public schoolboys or Socialists”. The very worst people that I have ever dealt with in writing, publishing, and the BBC have been both public school and Socialists. My father also trained originally under his father as a butcher. He maintained that sausages should be eight to the pound, if larger they lost the subtlety of flavour and you were in fact paying “more for less”. He was right.

— Robin Page