"I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading the classics, be they medieval or contemporary, gives me a stylistic energy that I'm very interested in."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jaume Cabre

#Reading Quotes #Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
“My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.”

Source : Andrew M. Greeley (2002). “Letters to a Loving God: A Prayer Journal”, p.182, Rowman & Littlefield
“Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.”
“Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.â€ He glanced in the direction sheâ€™d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. â€œFourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.”
“Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.”
“The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.”
“Best friends make good times better and hard times easier!”
“Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.”

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