"No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets."

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Source : Stanislaw Lem (2012). “One Human Minute”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Stanislaw Lem

#Doe Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.”

Source : "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.”
“Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.”
“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”
“Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.”
“There are no photographs while I'm reloading .”
“Earthly families all look different. And while we do the best we can to create strong traditional families, membership in the family of God is not contingent upon any kind of statusâ€”marital status, parental status, financial status, social status, or even the kind of status we post on social media. â€¦”
“I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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