"Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt."

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Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.131, Penguin

Lauren Willig

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“If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.”

Source : Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press
“Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.”
“My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.”
“Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, ***** is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.”
“Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.”
“You can pray just like anyone else. The gifts of the Spirit belong to the Holy Spirit. You have this inside you by faith and can be a conduit.”
“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
“Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.”

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