"Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin."

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Source : Sara Nelson (2004). “So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading”, p.27, Penguin

Sara Nelson

#Sex Quotes #Book Quotes #Trying Quotes

“He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.”
“If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.”
“It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.”
“You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your pillow in your home, from a sound or a movement that makes you look... Itâ€™s whatever draws you or makes you feel something. Then, the picture is only good if it has a life of its own. Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If itâ€™s really good, itâ€™s another form of life.”
“I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.”
“MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.”
“I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.”

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