"A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other."

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Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.72, Hachette UK

Siri Hustvedt

#Book Quotes #Together Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...”

Source : Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage
“Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky”
“The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.”
“Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.”
“Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.”
“I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Since weâ€™re playing that gameâ€¦ I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. â€œDo you have to sneeze?â€ he asked. â€œBe quiet. Iâ€™m pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said.â€ â€œTry not to strain anything.â€ â€œOh, I wonâ€™t. Iâ€™m very good at faking it.â€ That shut him up.”
“A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!”

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