"I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“The loneliest moment in someoneâ€™s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!”
“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”
“We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.”

Source : "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. Januart 23, 2015.
“Great teams work harder after a tough loss.”
“I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.”
“So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.”

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