"If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation is not going to be met, you're going to be disappointed by a wrong turn. But when the thing is completed, the exhilaration and gratitude are deeply intense. You've gotten to read a great thing at its moment of emergence."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jonathan W. Galassi

#Gratitude Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.”
“It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.”
“If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.”
“I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.”
“Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”
“The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...”
“There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto, Placido Bucolo (1980). “The other Pareto”
“The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life”

Source : "Property prices are "castrating the whole notion of city life"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. February 24, 2014.

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