"Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island."

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Lawrence Block

#War Quotes #Book Quotes #Islands Quotes

“You take care of the people you love, but itâ€™s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.”
“There ought to be a way in which you can challenge lack of experience, which I think is hugely important, one of the reasons that I chose Hillary Clinton, not just because I've known her for many years, but because I've seen how tough the job is, having worked as President Clinton's deputy chief of staff.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”
“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”

Source : "Manifesto Proletkult" by Theo van Doesburg, 1923.
“Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.”
“There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.”
“My hole is warm and full of light.”
“Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.”

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