"It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live."

-- Christopher Paolini

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.”
“Even the most political poem is an act of faith.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. July 20, 2007.
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.38, New Directions Publishing
“The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.
“Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”

Source : "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.
“I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.”
“I'm a big believer in human nature.”

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