"I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes

“The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.”
“The ocean moans over dead men's bones.”
“To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.”
“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.”
“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.”
“Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.”

Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.413, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book”

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