"Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned."

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Source : Sue Townsend (2012). “The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year”, p.93, Penguin UK

Sue Townsend

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Promise Quotes

“I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?”

Source : "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.
“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”
“Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.”
“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”
“I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.”
“The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.”
“In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.”
“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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