"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer"

-- Rita Dove

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Love Of Reading Quotes

“After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.”
“There aren't any answers, only choices”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1407, Dell
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
“This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.”
“I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.”
“That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, Iâ€™m afraid I already knew that about you.”
“I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.”

Source : "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.
“Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...”

Source : Nelson Algren (1998). “Nonconformity: Writing on Writing”, p.85, Seven Stories Press

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