"A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall."

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Virginia Euwer Wolff

#Wall Quotes #Book Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.”
“I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.”
“In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.”
“People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.”
“We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.”
“For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like that, and these he associates with the intellect because they're the objects of intellect, they are things that intellect can think about.”
“Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.”

Source : "David Crystal: the story of English spelling" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2012.
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.”

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