"Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended."

-- Ken Follett

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
“Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change,”
“[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mÃ©lange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for the most intensely competitive culture in this solar system.”
“The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.”
“The master says itâ€™s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says itâ€™s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if thereâ€™s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”
“I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.”
“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage
“I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.”

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