"When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else."

-- John Muir

#Universe Quotes

“[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.”

Source : Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.124, Basic Books
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin
“A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.”
“What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.”

Source : "Astaire, the biography". Book by Tim Satchell, 1987.
“Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.”
“I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.”
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

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