"There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books."

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Source : Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Velvet Room”, p.64, iUniverse

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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“There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.”
“The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?”
“I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.”
“I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.”
“He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“The Earth is the Lord. Everybody walks on the earth. And nobody respects the Earth. Everybody who walks on the earth, shits on the Earth. Spits on the Earth. Don't respect the Earth. So the Earth didn't like it. So the Earth call for a revolution. And the earth is fighting back. The Earth call for a revolution. The Earth call for justice. And the Earth get justice. 'Cause the Earth release ganja. The Earth release herbs.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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