"First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Criticism Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.”
“I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.”
“Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.”

Source : "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.
“Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.”
“Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”

Source : Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.174, Macmillan
“I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.”
“All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.”

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