"We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“This person should have been aborted years ago.”
“We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.”
“Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !”
“There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.”

Source : Rachel Field (1939). “All this and Heaven too”
“Success in anything is through happiness.”
“We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.”

Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.”

Source : "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.”

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