"You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames."

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Source : Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

Lloyd Jones

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it canâ€™t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.”
“What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.”
“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.”
“We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.”

Source : "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.
“The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.”
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.”
“The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.”
“What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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