"Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on."

-- Joe Queenan

#Love Quotes #Book Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.”
“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”
“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”
“Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.”

Source : "Paul Thomas Anderson Says You'll Learn More from This Commentary Track Than in 20 Years of Film School" by Alison Nastasi, www.movies.com. December 18, 2012.
“I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.”
“It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.”
“The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)”

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