"Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didnâ€™t know you knew."

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Source : Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

Clifton Fadiman

#Book Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Film Quotes

“All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Aliceâ€™s hot mouth on his, her tears on his cheek, or maybe they werenâ€™t hers, and finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.”
“I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.”
“As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.”
“You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.”
“The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.”
“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.”
“Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.”
“It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.”

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