"Six booksâ€¦ my mother didnâ€™t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books â€“ that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."

--

Jeanette Winterson

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Fall Quotes

“I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.”
“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.”
“It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.”
“We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press
“When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.”
“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.”

Source : "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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