"Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms."

-- William Godwin

#Taken Quotes #Animal Quotes #Literature Quotes

“If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.”
“It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.”
“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing
“My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
“It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'”
“O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment”
“I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.”

Source : "Federer back to reclaim his Wimbledon crown". Interview with Pritha Sarkar, www.reuters.com. June 19, 2011.

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