"Books dont need batteries"

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Nadine Gordimer

#Book Quotes #Batteries Quotes #Needs Quotes

“And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.”
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”
“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”
“The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.”

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.94
“Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.”
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
“motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.”
“My work was entirely nonfiction.”

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