"Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying."

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Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.11, Vintage

Will Schwalbe

#Reading Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Dying Quotes

“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”
“In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.”
“There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.”
“There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When I announced on my Facebook page that I'm coming to Israel, people started telling me that I shouldn't go there, but I figured that if I'm not going to come here, then I guess I can't go back to the United States anymore and I can never go to Russia again and I should probably never go back to Germany and I should probably never go back to France and I should probably never go back to England....All I see here is a really beautiful city.”
“I want to live quietly.”
“You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if you're rude to somebody in prison, you get killed.”
“If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.”

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

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