"There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it."

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Source : Ken Bruen (2015). “The Jack Taylor Series, Books 1-3: The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers, and The Magdalen Martyrs”, p.375, Macmillan

Ken Bruen

#Book Quotes #Refuge Quotes

“All sports are games of inches.”
“The little things that you saw with a childâ€™s eye and that will never go away. Thatâ€™s what consciousness is all about.”
“A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.”
“You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.”
“You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.”
“Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.”
“Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.”
“At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.”

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