"The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time."

-- Wilkie Collins

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“I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.”
“After my husband died more than a decade ago, my mother prayed that I would remarry so that I could have a "normal" life again. Many people assumed that it would be too difficult for me to carry on as a single mother and raise a child without a man at my side. As the years went by, I found that it was indeed possible and that, in fact, I had no desire to remarry.”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.”
“One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.”
“At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if Iâ€™m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but theyâ€™re mine, so who cares.”
“the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
“Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.”

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