"One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked."

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Karl Kraus

#Reading Quotes #Kind Quotes #Wells Quotes

“The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone”
“In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.”
“I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.”

Source : "Penelope Cruz: I Don't Think I'm Beautiful". Parade Interview, parade.com. August 8, 2008.
“If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.”
“I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.”
“Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.”

Source : "Author, author: Kate Mosse" by Kate Mosse, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.
“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”
“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”

Source : "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, books.google.ru. April 25, 2013.

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