"Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them because they were diverting or illuminating or in some way useful but not because the books themselves were aesthetically appealing."

-- Joe Queenan

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“Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.”

Source : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York
“I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.”
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”
“Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.”
“Once you let yourself believe that you've gotten to the top, you've lost sight of the real goal. Which is to keep climbing no matter what. And by climbing, I don't mean trying to out do yourself with even more accomplishments. Instead, what I mean is that just when we think we have done something well, we should start looking at the other areas of our lives that need attention.”
“When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.”
“Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.”

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