"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Book Quotes #Soul Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.”
“An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.”
“No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.”

Source : "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.
“If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?”
“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264
“A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.”

Source : "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.
“All I believe in is food and myself.”

Source : "Action Bronson Announces 'Fuck, That's Delicious', Food-Oriented Web Series" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2014.
“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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