"A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker."

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

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“Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.”
“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.”

Source : Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald
“All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.”
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan
“We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you â€˜no.â€™”
“Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It's about value, not quantity.”

Source : "What A Difference A Day Makes: An Interview With The Suddenly Superfamous Designer Jason Wu". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.
“Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.”
“The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties.”

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