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“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”
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“There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.”
Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.8, Random House
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“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
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“Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.”
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“It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.”
Source : "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".
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“When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.”
Source : Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.175, Canongate Books
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“All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.”
Source : Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.22, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.”
