"Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart."

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Source : FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

Pat Conroy

#Dream Quotes #Lying Quotes #Grief Quotes

“Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.”
“Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.”

Source : "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?”
“Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to â€œhumbleness.â€ But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.”
“When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.”
“In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”

Source : Source: creativescreenwriting.com
“Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.”
“I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.”

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