"I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a singleâ€”and singularâ€”piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization."

-- Joseph Epstein

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”
“If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.”
“I miss you already I donâ€™t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.”
“I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky, “I Sit By The Window”
“Itâ€™s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didnâ€™t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.”
“Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
“The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.”
“Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.”

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