"They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.”
“College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.”
“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
“A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.168
“Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.”
“I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.”
“The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.”

Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.23, Anchor
“I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.”

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