"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."

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Source : 1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.1.

Don DeLillo

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Europe Quotes

“I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.”
“I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.”
“We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of course, what the doctors say is it's not Alzheimer's. You run into that Catch-22 all the time. They say, well, it was probably just a temporary premature dementia, and they write-off the recovery to preserve their ignorance.”
“John is a man of his word. And so am I.”
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side”

Source : Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”
“.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.”
“Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.”
“Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.”

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