"If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport."

-- Patricia Hampl

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“Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.”
“Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am”
“I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.”
“I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, 1922.
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”
“I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,”
“Acquaintance lessens fame.”

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