"I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world."

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Source : "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books". Book by Wendy Lesser, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2014.

Wendy Lesser

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“Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.”
“Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.”
“Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.”

Source : "Inventor of mobile phones says they have become 'too complicated'" by Rachel Cooper, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 6, 2009.
“Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.”
“the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.”
“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
“Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.”

Source : FaceBook post by Farhan Akhtar from Mar 30, 2013

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