"The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]"

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Siri Hustvedt

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Doors Quotes

“God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.”
“If I was killed in prison. That would be a blessing right now.”
“It should be oneâ€™s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”
“I never think people are cheeering for us. In fact, i donâ€™t really hear them at all.”
“To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.”
“On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.”
“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.”
“One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively weâ€™ll move toward it.”

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