"Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf."

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Mean Quotes #Secret Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.”
“I have terrible PMS. I just went a little crazy.”
“Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.”
“I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.”

Source : Martin Ritt, Gabriel Miller (2003). “Martin Ritt: Interviews”, p.204, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.”

Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.
“That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. And those are huge things back in the 50s and 60s and 70s - and he was doing this in the 40s.”
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”
“Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.”

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