"Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.”
“Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.”
“You can be racist against people that eat little red apples.”
“Brexit and Trump have brought the problems of capitalism into sharp relief, but both are only making things worse. Take the investment challenge - businesses invest where there they see technological or market opportunity.”
“When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.”
“There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.”
“I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.”
“I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.”

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