Quotes
Authors
Maureen Corrigan

"I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi"

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

Maureen Corrigan

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“History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.”
“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.”
“Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.”
“Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.”
“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.”

Source : "Espana saldra de la crisis a finales de 2009", translated, www.20minutos.es. December 27, 2008.
“Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.”
“My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”
“Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.”

Source : "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

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