"When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction."

-- Jesse Sheidlower

#Book Quotes #Discovery Quotes #People Quotes

“You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it!”
“Once in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed In that magical wood in the land of sleep.”

Source : Sarojini Naidu (2017). “The Golden Threshold”, p.16, Library of Alexandria
“When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.”
“A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost”
“It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.”
“The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea,”
“Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.”
“I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone.”

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