"We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king."

-- Beeban Kidron

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“A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.”
“Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out.”
“In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.148, Macmillan
“I've had some styles that make me wonder what the hell I was thinking. How did I let someone do that to me?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.365
“our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.”
“The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.”
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”

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