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“Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.”
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“It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.”
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“Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.”
Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.193, Penguin
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“The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.”
Source : William Dean Howells (2006). “My Literary Passions”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.”
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“Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...”
Source : Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.186, Penguin
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“This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson; it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the scholars.”
