"The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone."

-- Johann Georg Hamann

#Book Quotes #Long Quotes #Ink Quotes

“Trees have roots, Jews have legs.”
“Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.”
“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”

Source : Kathrine Switzer (2017). “Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports”, p.84, Hachette UK
“Dreams have as much influences as actions.”
“love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
“All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”
“What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.”

Source : Jonathan P. Binstock, Jim Sanborn (2003). “Atomic Time: Pure Science and Seduction”, Corcoran Gallery Of Art
“I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

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