"There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written."

-- Kenzaburo Oe

#Reading Quotes

“As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.”
“Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.”
“A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.”
“As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.
“I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.”
“I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this -Â thisÂ - is falling in love.”
“I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.”
“Mitt Romney and John McCain and Donald Trump are very different candidates. This is the disruptive candidate who gets these huge crowds, is building momentum in last weeks of compaign. That was not true of the other two races.”

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