"There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader."

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Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

David Bezmozgis

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Different Quotes

“The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.”
“Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.”
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
“Gods have many faces.”

Source : "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.
“If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.”
“I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.”
“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.”

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