"I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!"

-- Peg Kehret

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.”
“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”

Source : "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
“I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.”
“It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'”
“It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!”
“Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.”

You may also like: