"Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway."

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Source : Ron McLarty (2005). “The Memory of Running”, p.53, Penguin

Ron McLarty

#Hate Quotes #Book Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.”
“You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students." I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.”
“To me, style is all about expressing your individuality freely and courageously.”
“Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.”
“In a major matter no details are small.”
“I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.”
“I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.”
“The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

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