"Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin."
Eric Clapton
"Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read."
John Connolly
"Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment..."
Primo Levi
"I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics."
William Godwin
"Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die."
Roland Barthes
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven."
Thomas Fuller
"I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing."
Jimmy Dore
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."
Anonymous
"Sleep is the best meditation."
Dalai Lama
"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"True giving lies not in receiving but in giving."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them."
Rachel Cohen
"But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...Didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?"
Jodi Picoult
"I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place I come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student."
sol michael
"Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye."
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