"I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it."

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Blake Bailey

#Passionate Quotes #Want Quotes #Academic Quotes

“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”
“Every time we take the floor, we believe we can win.”
“I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.”
“Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.”
“Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.”

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