"You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book."

-- Gary Soto

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #People Quotes

“You only realize how much you love somebody when one day they dont love you back.”
“The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.”
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
“Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.”

Source : Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press
“I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.”

Source : "Schindler's List". Book by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15., October 18, 1982.
“Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
“Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

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