"I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others."

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#Book Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality.”
“I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.”
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
“A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.”

Source : "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.
“As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.”

Source : www.publications.parliament.uk. March 17, 2005.
“Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!”
“Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution”
“I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.”

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