"You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings."

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Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House

Cornelia Funke

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Burning Quotes

“The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November.”
“Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.”
“Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.”
“If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you sleep. You wake at noon, watch soaps on TV, take two or three hours to fancy up yourself, and then you start waiting for customers. That's your life. And some days no customers come. There's no party. There's nothing. You sit there and wait. If you're educated you can read books, but in Bangladesh and most other places you watch TV or listen to music or cook.”
“When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.”

Source : Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura
“There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.”
“I am proud to be an actor.”
“Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that werenâ€™t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. Itâ€™s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. Thatâ€™s how influential and ahead of the times he was.”

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