"Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Book Quotes #Looks Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Where the material ends, art begins.”
“Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate”
“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”
“The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.”

Source : "Exclusive: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]”
“To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.”
“We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.”
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”

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