"I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Book Quotes #Order Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.”
“Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.”
“One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].”
“European lotteries are the tax on fools.”
“Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.”
“I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.”

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