"When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library."

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Source : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

Lorene Cary

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Night Quotes

“The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.”
“You know, its really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.”
“Id love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.”
“I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.”
“Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.”

Source : "Nintendo's New Direction" by Steven L. Kent, GameSpy, April 11, 2004.
“You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.”
“You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!”
“Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.”

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