"I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books."

-- Connie Willis

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“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”
“As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Happiness isn't real unless it is shared.”
“I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.”
“We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more successÂ stories.”

Source : "NY mayor plans to address social inequity". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. January 2, 2014.
“If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
“I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.”

Source : "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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