"Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work."

-- Harold Bloom

#Wise Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Nights are not just for sleep.”
“[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!”
“I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.”
“You canâ€™t change the music of your soul.”
“The Vedas inform us that because God is absolute, there is no difference between God the person and His holy name; the name is God.”
“I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.”
“In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.”

Source : Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.32, BookBaby
“Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.”

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