"I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Emily Barton

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Relationships can't blossom unless there is meaningful communication. That's why 'supplication is the key to worship.' It is a sign of meaningful communication between God and a person.”
“[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.”

Source : Source: theurbandaily.com
“I would like to be able to breatheâ€” to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”
“Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.”

Source : "An Intermediate Approach to the Auditor Rotation Issue" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.
“I just want to continue the way I am going.”
“I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash onstage, and sometimes you have people who have been coming to theater for years. It's the combination of those people in an audience that makes for a pretty amazing night - their ability to give each other permission to react and enjoy, in a way that maybe they wouldn't if they weren't sitting next to each other.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.”

Source : Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.”

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