"The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks."

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Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.116, Macmillan

Michael Dirda

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“It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying”
“As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?”
“I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.”
“Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.”
“I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.”

Source : "Facing Reality : Philosophical Adventures by a Brain Scientist" by John Carew Eccles, (p. 83), 1970.
“Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.”
“It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.”

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