"When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person."

-- Eduardo Galeano

#Book Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.”
“Our nation is today a powerful nation.”
“The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?”
“Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more...”
“The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.”

Source : Lewis Wolpert (1998). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.92, Harvard University Press
“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”
“Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.”
“I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.”

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