"Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether."

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Source : "How not to read" by Lionel Shriver, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2014.

Lionel Shriver

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“It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.”
“There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.”

Source : "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“You're a grand old flag, You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue, Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.”

Source : Robert Burns (2016). “Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems”, p.96, Michael O'Mara Books
“If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.”
“Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.”
“Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.”
“Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!”

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