"My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world."

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Source : "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

David Edelstein

#Book Quotes #Important Quotes #Shy Quotes

“Mercury dropped the purple car and shot up into the air, whistling like a shooting star. The woman in the car next to me looked up at me like I was a superhero. I smiled at her and jumped down, trying to be smooth. I landed wrong and went sliding on my face. I glanced back at her. She appeared less impressed than before.”
“It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartesâ€™ argument â€œI think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.”
“It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.”
“I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.”
“Consciousness is the glory of creation.”
“Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?”

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