"Life is too short to read a bad book."

-- James Joyce

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“There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.”
“If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.”
“An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.”
“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”
“We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.230, The Overlook Press
“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
“To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.”
“It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”

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