"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.113, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

#Book Quotes #Water Quotes #Settling Quotes

“Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.”
“How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?”
“Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.”
“Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents”
“a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.”
“Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.”
“I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!”
“Words can be used as a bomb or balm.”

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