"Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another."

-- Lewis Buzbee

#Book Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Connections Quotes

“I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
“Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.”
“Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.”
“How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?”

Source : "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim Fest, p. 171, 1999.
“The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, weâ€™re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, weâ€™ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.”
“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.”
“I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. Theyâ€™re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.”
“Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack”

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