"Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette."

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Source : "One For The Books". Book by Joe Queenan, 2012.

Joe Queenan

#Reading Quotes #Angel Quotes #Epic Quotes

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
“A lot of people want to keep me off my feet. I say a lot of things that are on my mind; I'm a very honest person. On top of that I'm a weird figure for hip-hop: this person who doesn't drink, smoke or do any of those weird things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There are only two reasons why a woman doesn't pick up her phone. She either likes him too much or hates him too much.”
“That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.17, Princeton University Press
“Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.”
“I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.”
“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.”
“I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.”

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