"I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Fickle Quotes

“Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.”
“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”

Source : "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.
“I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.”

Source : "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.
“I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.”
“We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.”

Source : "The Master of Reflection : E.L. Doctorow, a Specialist in Envisioning Life in the Past, Offers Some Modern Thoughts" by Beverly Beyette, articles.latimes.com. April 05, 1989.
“Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.”
“I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.”
“The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.”

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