"Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister."

-- Shelby Foote

#Brother Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacleâ€”the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller
“Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.”
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
“Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes.”

Source : Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.301, Simon and Schuster
“I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.”

Source : Speech in Ilford (13 March 1982), from Simon Heffer, "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell", p. 853, 1999.
“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.”
“The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.”
“God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.”

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