"Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Long Quotes

“There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.”

Source : "Sledge Hammer! star David Rasche on the fun of puncturing American gun culture". Interview with John Teti, tv.avclub.com. January 16, 2016.
“Words may inspire but only action creates change.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 09, 2012
“They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.”

Source : "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.
“This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.”
“It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.”
“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.”
“I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.”
“Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.”

Source : Gregor Von Rezzori (2012). “An Ermine in Czernopol”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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