"In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes."

-- Patricia T. O'Conner

#Reading Quotes #Land Quotes #Way Quotes

“If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.”

Source : Robert Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and The Boy”
“Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.”
“I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.”
“They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.”
“I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.”
“When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.”
“We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.”
“You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.”

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