"Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started."

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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“I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.”

Source : George Ella Lyon (2012). “Holding On to Zoe”, p.9, Macmillan
“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.”
“When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.”
“The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.”

Source : Man Ray, J. Paul Getty Museum (1998). “Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.8, Getty Publications
“The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.”
“It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media
“When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.”

Source : "Screen Stories" magazine, 1967.
“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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