"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence."

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Source : Jan Morris (1989). “Pleasures of a tangled life”, Vintage

Jan Morris

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Library Quotes

“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creatureâ€¦ That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.62, Macmillan
“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

Source : Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University Press
“I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.”
“Love insists the loved loves back”
“There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”
“I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.”
“There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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