"A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world."

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Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.189, Macmillan

Sven Birkerts

#Crush Quotes #Book Quotes #Self Quotes

“I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.”
“It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.”
“I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.”
“If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.”
“The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.”
“I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

Source : "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)
“I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.”
“I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.”

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