"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and itâ€™s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself."

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Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books

Rebecca Mead

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Doe Quotes

“There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.”
“I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.”
“The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.”

Source : FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Nov 04, 2013
“A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.”
“Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.”
“I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.”

Source : Interview With Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.
“There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.”
“I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”

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