"I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story."

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Philip Reeve

#Book Quotes #Way Quotes #Six Quotes

“McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”
“Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!”

Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11
“I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.”
“Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.”

Source : Song: Travelin' Man, Album: Beautiful Loser, 1975
“I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.”
“The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.”
“And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
“I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in dynamical science. The only contribution of dynamics to theoretical biology is absolute negation of automatic commencement or automatic maintenance of life.”

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