"At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Sergio Chejfec

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.”
“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”
“One, gains an unmistakable impression that the Sky- God wanted to communicate with people of various folk religions all the time, but for His own mysterious reasons maintained a policy of restraint until the arrival of Yahweh's testimony! This is surely a powerful exta-biblical evidence for the authenticity of the Bible as revelation from the one true and universal God!”
“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

Source : 1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.
“Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “He Came Down From Heaven”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”

Source : Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books
“I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.”
“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.”

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