"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."

-- Manuel Puig

#Reading Quotes #Different Quotes #Attention Quotes

“If you build it, they will come.”
“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”
“All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.”
“When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.”
“One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.”
“It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.”
“There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”
“Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.”

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