"My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending."

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.”
“As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.”
“When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'”
“Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.”

Source : Sharon Begley (2008). “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves”, p.9, Ballantine Books
“Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.205, New York Review of Books
“Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.”
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
“How many slams in an old screen door?Â Depends how loud you shut it.Â How many slices in a bread?Â Depends how thin you cut it.Â How much good inside a day?Â Depends how good you live 'em.Â How much love inside a friend?Â Depends how much you give 'em.â€Â â€•Â How Many, How MuchÂ by Shel Silverstein â€œTell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”

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