"The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased."

-- Samuel Richardson

#Reading Quotes #Tests Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.”
“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.”
“I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2011). “You're (Not) the One: A Novel”, p.130, Penguin
“Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.”
“A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.”
“There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.”
“Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.90, A&C Black
“The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.”

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