"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

-- W. H. Auden

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes

“One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.”
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
“I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.”
“Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.”

Source : "The Republican Noise Machine" by Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2004.
“My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.”
“Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.95, Vintage
“A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.”
“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses....”

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