"But knowing that you had gone wrong, and……" — John Lanchester

"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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14 Quotes by John Lanchester

John Lanchester has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of…
The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as…
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a…
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new…
We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was…
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing…

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