"I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books."

-- Helen Simonson

#Book Quotes #Long Quotes #Important Quotes

“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.”
“I do a lot of smiling. Friends. Weed.”
“You must play boldly to win.”
“Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.”
“You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a certain point. So, primarily for most of my career, I've written the kind of criticism that fascinates me. The things I discovered the things that get me going, that I'm excited about.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Bite your teeth into the ***** of life.”
“jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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