"I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times."

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Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

Nancy Spain

#Book Quotes #Four Quotes

“Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.”
“One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.”
“Itâ€™s sad. Marxism didnâ€™t work. Communism didnâ€™t work. Capitalism doesnâ€™t work.Â Nothing works. Even democracy doesnâ€™t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for whoâ€™s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. Thatâ€™s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.”
“[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.”
“History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.”
“My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.”

Source : "Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women". Interview with Alex Stedman, variety.com. June 5, 2015.
“I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.”
“Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.”

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