"In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar."

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.148, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

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“Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Leaving Paradise”, p.279, North Star Editions, Inc.
“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”

Source : "The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music, 1933.
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.”
“Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.”
“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
“A word on miracles.... Don't let those that have not yet transpired, blind you to those that have.”
“A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.”
“If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.”

Source : Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.

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