"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."

-- Augustine Birrell

#Good Reads Quotes #Baths Quotes #Creation Quotes

“I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government”
“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”

Source : "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.
“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”
“It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.293, Penguin
“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
“This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.”

Source : Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts (2012). “Doctor Who: Shada”, p.51, Random House
“Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.”
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”

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