"To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with."

-- Christina Stead

#Book Quotes #Cutting Quotes #House Quotes

“A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either. ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.”
“Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.”
“I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.”
“I use poetry to help me work through what I donâ€™t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that Iâ€™ve been.”
“When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.”
“None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.”
“The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.”
“Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...”

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