“If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.” IfsSaidCareFormWrittenHappenedOne ThingCostPureShapesMessagesVery GoodDuesAccidentsMadmenSellersBest SellersInattentionNaivete Book:Seeds Source: Seeds
“I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.” ReasonEnoughSophisticatedPeasantsNaivete Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.” OpportunityActingInstinctMixturesCombsActing OutNaivete Author:Jeffrey Combs