"For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands."

-- Stefan Zweig

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“I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"”

Source : Source: www.americansuburbx.com
“I think bootlegging is kinda cool.”

Source : "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.
“So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books
“God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.”
“Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.”
“The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.”
“Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.”
“Italians have no sense of the dramatic.”

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