"A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [â€¦] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)"

-- Neil Postman

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #Evaluation Quotes

“writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.”
“One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”
“J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.”

Source : Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books
“As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.”
“Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.”
“It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.”
“Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.”

Source : "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.
“In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.”

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