"When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment."

-- Umberto Eco

#Community Quotes #Looks Quotes #Resentment Quotes

“Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.”
“I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.”
“Eating has always come up whenever and wherever. Maybe it's because we're girls, we have a lot of interest in eating.”
“No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.”
“I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.”
“You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.”
“The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.”

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