"People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up."

-- Gore Vidal

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.”
“Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.”
“I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.”
“I hate all the core stuff. Thatâ€™s why I have to have a trainer. Thatâ€™s the only way Iâ€™m going to do the abs work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company
“Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.”
“Man â€” despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments â€” owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

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