"reading is at the beginning of the social contract"

-- Alberto Manguel

#Reading Quotes #Social Quotes #Contracts Quotes

“I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.”
“I promise to stand by you unwaveringly through thick and some day, God willing, through thin.”
“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books
“I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.”
“Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.”
“New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
“We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.”

Source : John Bates Clark, John Maurice Clark (1914). “The Control of Trusts”

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