"In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature"

-- Sylvia Brownrigg

#Years Quotes #Year End Quotes #Mind Quotes

“From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”
“Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.”
“Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press
“Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
“Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.”
“Odd that I couldnâ€™t catch any of your dream,â€ Bones went on. â€œNormally your dreams are like background music to me.”
“Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.”

Source : Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

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