"Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you."

-- E. B. White

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“I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.”
“I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.”
“Want to know whatâ€™s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.”
“Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.”
“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”
“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press
“In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.”

Source : Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.avclub.com. September 08, 2011.

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