"Good readers make much out of little."

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Source : Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

Irving Howe

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Littles Quotes

“We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway”

Source : "Study: Truckers not getting enough shut eye". www.cnn.com. September 10, 1997.
“Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.”
“Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.”
“It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.”
“It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.”
“It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.”
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”

Source : Maxim Gorky (2016). “Creatures That Once Were Men”, p.39, The Floating Press
“Without tact you can learn nothing.”

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