"What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness."

-- Theodore Parker

#Summer Quotes #Book Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
“Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.”

Source : Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.37, Open Road Media
“Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'”
“I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.”
“Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.”
“You shouldn't love me. I don't deserve you.”
“At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something”

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