"I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes"

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.147, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”

Source : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, C. D. Broad (1988). “The Nature of Existence:”, p.23, CUP Archive
“I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.”
“Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.”
“Never a daisy grows, but a mystery guideth the growing.”
“Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.”
“I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.
“There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.”
“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

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