"In reading we must become creators."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Reading Quotes #Creator Quotes

“If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.”
“Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.”
“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
“The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.”
“I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.”
“I donâ€™t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.”
“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.”

Source : Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global
“I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.”

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