"I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Reading Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Want Quotes

“Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.”
“Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.”

Source : "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.
“If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.”
“You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.”
“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
“That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it! That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body. That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance! That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.”
“Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?”

Source : "Are you playing it Safe? What does safety really mean to you?" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2017.
“Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.”

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