"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

--

Francois Mauriac

#Inspirational Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.”

Source : "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books". Book by Wendy Lesser, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.
“Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.”
“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”

Source : Geoffrey Wolff (2013). “A Day at the Beach: Recollections”, p.5, Vintage
“I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple”
“I ran road when I was a kid, but for me now, trails are like getting away from the world. If you are a road-runner, you are dodging cars and whatnot, so for me, trail running is a release. When I get up in the morning and I go running, it's therapeutic. Especially in the mountains: the smell, the nature, the wildlife. It's so much nicer. It's easier on the body, since its softer.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124
“You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.”
“My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”

Source : Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 Mar. 1918

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