"I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet."

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Source : "Andrew Wylie: 'I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.

Andrew Wylie

#Book Quotes #Half Quotes #Hours Quotes

“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”
“The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.”

Source : "The Clumsy Embrace". Interview with Kevin D. Miller, www.christianitytoday.com. October 26, 1998.
“On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.”
“An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.”
“It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2012). “Under the Jaguar Sun”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.”

Source : "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.
“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”

Source : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

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