"In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy is taking the time to do things properly, and thereby enjoy them more."

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Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

Carl Honore

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“Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.”
“When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
“The writer's job is the job of a clown â€¦the clown who also talks about sorrow.”
“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”
“So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.”
“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.12, Open Road Media
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

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