"I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf."

-- Patti Smith

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Shelves Quotes

“So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.”
“That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.”
“I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.”
“Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.”
“If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.”
“The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that thereâ€™s this huge silence about it around me angers me.”

Source : "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Fred de Sam Lazaro, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2007.
“And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.”
“Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.”

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