"Books do furnish a room."

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Source : Title of novel (1971)

Anthony Powell

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown.”
“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”

Source : Guy de Maupassant (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant (Illustrated)”, p.1129, Delphi Classics
“I think we just have to become more consistent.”

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“I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.”
“So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.”
“How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?”
“Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn”
“A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.222, Wave Books

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