"Both my parents were big readers."

-- Christopher Bollen

#Parent Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Reader Quotes

“Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.”
“You notice. And noticing, you live.”

Source : John Graves (2016). “From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas”, p.163, University of Texas Press
“Women are like wine: I can only afford the really cheap ones that have the big, ugly boxes that leak.”
“The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.”
“Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.”
“Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.”
“In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.”
“Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!”

Source : 1592 Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.

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