"People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Beach Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
“Everything about my life is about winning a national championship”
“The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3”, p.363, Tor Australia
“Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.”
“There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.”
“Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.”
“Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!”
“Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.”

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