"A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another."

-- P.B. Kerr

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #World Quotes

“My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.”
“How many times do I have to say it? â€¦ Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'”
“For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.”

Source : Eric Foner (1988). “Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877”, Harpercollins
“You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.”
“Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.”
“People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.”
“The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.”

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