"Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Book Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes

“Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.”
“It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.”
“I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.”
“The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.”

Source : John Selden (1847). “The Table-talk of John Selden Esq: With a Biographical Preface and Notes”, p.42
“Experience yourself in silence.”
“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
“Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.”
“You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.”

Source : "R&B artist Anthony Hamilton". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 14, 2012.

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