"I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books."

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Nathan Englander

#Book Quotes #People Quotes

“The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level,”
“Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.”
“Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.”
“I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.”
“But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47
“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”
“It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying”
“If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

Source : "Style as Instrument, Style as Person" by Berel Lang, Critical Inquiry Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 715-739, Summer, 1978.

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