"...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality."

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Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of the Sky: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

FÃ©lix J. Palma

#Book Quotes #Reality Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.”
“Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.”
“I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?”
“Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.”
“If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.”
“Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement”
“The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.”
“What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.”

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