"Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader."

-- Terry Eagleton

#Reading Quotes #Space Quotes #Enabling Quotes

“If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.”
“I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.”
“I can always tell when a girl comes from a good family because she's what's known as not at all attracted to me.”
“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
“There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.”

Source : "Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations and Anecdotes". Book by Jacob Morton Braude, 1957.
“I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.”
“Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell”
“Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.”

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