"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

-- Henry James

#Reading Quotes #Epic Quotes #Envelopes Quotes

“I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.”
“I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.”
“The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.”
“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.”
“What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.”
“Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.”
“Hurried business is bad business.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books
“I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.”

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