"I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing."

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Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

Janice Galloway

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Doors Quotes

“The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.”
“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
“Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.”
“Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.”
“Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.”
“Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.”

Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.6, Wesleyan University Press
“The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.”
“Gut health is the key to overall health.”

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