"Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf."

-- Justin Cronin

#Behinds Quotes #Bookshelves Quotes

“The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.”

Source : Lyonel Feininger, June L. Ness (1974). “Lyonel Feininger”, Praeger Publishers
“Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.”
“And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.”

Source : Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.
“I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.”

Source : Bob Buford (1994). “Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance”, p.65, Zondervan
“Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.”
“The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.”

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