"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

-- Alison Bechdel

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The world is beating a path to our door”
“I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important,”
“The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.”
“The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.”
“Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.”
“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”
“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.6, Anchor

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