"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."

-- Oscar Levant

#Selfish Quotes #Reading Quotes #Book Quotes

“"One of the best things about ***** legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation."”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 29, 1799.
“Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.”
“Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?”

Source : Song: Sweet Baby James
“I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a way it maybe isn't in American fiction. Your work of art becomes fashionable the moment it has some kind of political commentary. I think this has its dangers - the equation between fashion, politics, and art is problematic for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, the notion of politics as being de rigueur in the world of fiction is almost unthinkable. In fiction in America at the moment, the escape into whimsy is far more prevalent than the political.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.”
“Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding, then his word, which is received by the ear, can sink deep into the heart.”
“Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.”

Source : John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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