"Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire."

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Source : "The Urgent Matter of Books" by Lidia Yuknavitch, therumpus.net. May 03, 2011.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #House Quotes

“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.”

Source : "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy an Interview by Robert Piper". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.”
“When you come into the world you have nothing... when you leave you have nothing... and in between there's the IRS.”
“My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.”
“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”
“Luck is tenacity of purpose.”
“It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.”
“The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before. Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn't just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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