"A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul."

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Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.38, Vintage

Richard Flanagan

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“I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.”
“The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.”
“How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.”
“I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.”
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
“We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.”
“The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.”
“There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154

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