"Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel."

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Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bohumil Hrabal

#Beautiful Quotes #Heart Quotes #Blood Quotes

“We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (2000). “Days and Nights of Love and War”, p.175, Pluto Press
“There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.”
“Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.”
“When I win awards, I think of my father.”
“I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.”
“I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.”
“We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.”
“I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.”

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