"Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Past Quotes

“You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!”
“For me, almost always, the answer was cake.”

Source : Diana Abu-Jaber (2007). “The Language of Baklava”, p.186, Anchor
“The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.”
“It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.”
“Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.”
“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”
“People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.”
“Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.”

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