"We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader."

-- Will Self

#Book Quotes #House Quotes #Important Quotes

“...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.”
“It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.”
“I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.”
“Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.”
“Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.”
“I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.”
“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan
“Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.”

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