"My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values."

-- Gae Aulenti

#Book Quotes #Home Quotes #Advice Quotes

“A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.”

Source : Rick Hilles (2006). “Brother Salvage”, p.38, University of Pittsburgh Press
“Like and equal are two entirely different things.”
“[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.”
“There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain.”

Source : "The civil service is not full of fat cats" by Gus O'Donnell, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2010.
“Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“I am doubting what to do.”
“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.”

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