"The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;"

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

David Gelernter

#Book Quotes #Form Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.”

Source : "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.
“Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.”
“Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.”
“I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread”
“I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This is a writerâ€™s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.”
“We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”

Source : 'Litany for Dictatorships' (1935)
“I become a happier man each time I suffer”

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