"As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s."

-- Robert Darnton

#Book Quotes #Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.”
“Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.”
“... for no change comes calmly over the world...”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (2004). “The Lady and the Unicorn: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”

Source : W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press
“As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.”

Source : Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What Ive Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.”
“My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.”

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