"When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos..."

-- Anne Fadiman

#Sleep Quotes #Cat Quotes #Demand Quotes

“The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.”
“We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.”
“I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.”
“If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.”
“It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.”
“The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.”
“Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015

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