"Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage."

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Source : George Saintsbury (1934). “A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day”

George Saintsbury

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“Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.”
“It's all about being happy with your life and having fun. At least that's what works for me.”
“To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.”
“Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.”
“If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.”
“There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.”
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Online dicuss, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.
“The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.”

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