"For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception."
Bernard Katz
"Good taste is the flower of good sense."
Poincelot
"The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it."
John Howard Griffin
"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place."
Douglas Adams
"I joined the Pass Mods. Class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin."
Vera Brittain
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Douglas Adams
"Please don't fool yourself cause you can't fool me. I know what exactly you think right now and I also know what excuses you will bring to cover your nasty lies, but never forget that I will never ever believe you."
Arash Tabish
"The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read."
Tiffini Johnson
"Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up."
Lacey Sturm
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who is hurting. Only judge when time passes and the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged."
irene fantopoulos
"The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it."
Madame de Stael
"A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen."
Nikita Dudani
"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
Sara Sheridan
"And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life."
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