"A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading."

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Source : Frances Clarke Sayers, Marjeanne Jensen Blinn (1965). “Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers”, New York : Viking Press

Frances Clarke Sayers

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.”
“First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.”

Source : "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.
“Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.”
“The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.”

Source : Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.93, Courier Corporation
“Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound”

Source : Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”
“Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.”
“I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.”
“Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.”

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