"One reads alone, even in another's presence."

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Italo Calvino

“What are letters?â€ â€œKinda like mediaglyphics except theyâ€™re all black, and theyâ€™re tiny, they donâ€™t move, theyâ€™re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use â€™em to make short words for long words.”
“Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.”
“In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'”
“Activism has always been the driving force for change.”
“People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.”
“None of us are saints.”
“So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.”

Source : Interview with Paul Kerr and Miles Pomper, www.armscontrol.org. April 9, 2004.
“The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.”

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