Letdowns Quotes - Page 2

• It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, World, Riches

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• It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

  Demetri Martin

  Meaningful, Real, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

  John Knowles

  Teaching, Yale, Exeter

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• Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Writing, Literature

  "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Invention, I Realized, Descendants

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

  Joan Rivers

  Sorry, Cutting, Acceptance

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• This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Somewhere Else, Needs

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• And now, I’m going to sleep. I’ll see you in the morning, he said to Simon. “You,” he said to Jace, “well, I guess I’ll see you around. You’re the first Shadowhunter I’ve ever met.” “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.” Kyle rolled his eyes and left, banging his bedroom door shut behind him.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Eye, Sleep

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1519, Simon and Schuster

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