"A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful."

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Source : "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

Maurice Sendak

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Beauty Quotes

“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”
“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”

Source : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books
“The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?”
“We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE”
“Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.”
“I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.”
“I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.”

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