"Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values."

-- Amalia Kahana-Carmon

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Perception Quotes

“So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.”
“When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.”
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”

Source : 1992 In Time Out,19 Aug.
“The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.”
“Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.”
“If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.”
“The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.”
“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”

Source : "Thomas Mann: A Critical Study". Book by R. J. Hollingdale. Chapter 2, 1971.

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