"As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier."

-- Alberto Manguel

#Language Quotes #Barriers Quotes

“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
“He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles”, p.52, Pan Macmillan
“One thing you cannot control is nature.”
“There was a saying that the strength of a manâ€™s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.46, Penguin
“It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.”

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