"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."

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Source : Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.14, Anchor

Jane Smiley

#Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Today isn't just another day. Today I'll create something beautiful.”
“I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.”
“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”
“The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.”
“History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.”
“For too many, to work means having less income.”

Source : Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.
“Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.”
“The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.”

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