"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Falling In Love Quotes #Book Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”
“To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.”

Source : Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.114, Harvard University Press
“To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.”
“For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.”
“Television is a vast wasteland.”
“Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.”

Source : George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press
“There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.”

Source : Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

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