"Someone â€” Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? â€” once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable."

-- Joseph Epstein

#Literature Quotes #Bears Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014
“The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1873). “Music and Morals”, p.10, London : Strahan
“My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how a wailing rendition of 'Greensleeves' would encourage greater raspberry production but Alice insisted that it worked far better than chemical fertilizers, and she did produce several kinds of fruit in pie-worthy quantitites. No sense of pitch, but plenty of enthusiasm, he added.”
“We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.”
“Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.”
“What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.”
“Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
“No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.”

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