"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.”
“Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.”
“A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir - how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. â€œIslam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the â€œprophetâ€ Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself.”
“One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company
“I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.”
“As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.”

Source : Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press
“The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in, just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.”
“The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.”

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