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Elizabeth Kolbert

"Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of manâ€”the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factoriesâ€”will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper."

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

Elizabeth Kolbert

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“If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.”

Source : Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
“More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.”
“I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster
“There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.”
“Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.”
“If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.”
“I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.”

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