"Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood."

-- Neil Postman

#Reading Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Adulthood Quotes

“People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'”
“Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.”
“Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.”
“At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.”
“Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity....”
“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”
“Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.”

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