"The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read."

-- Alberto Manguel

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“It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.”

Source : Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.449
“Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.”
“Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.”
“For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.”
“If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.”

Source : "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

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