"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

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Source : Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

Germaine Greer

#Wisdom Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.”

Source : Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.370, Diversion Books
“Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.”

Source : Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn
“Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.”
“My best vacation is your worst nightmare.”
“Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).”
“I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.”
“The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.”
“Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.”

Source : Charles Perrault, Sally Holmes (1993). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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