"What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny."

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Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.101, Macmillan

Sven Birkerts

#Reading Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.”

Source : David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage
“Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.10, Vintage
“I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.”
“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”

Source : Alfred Lansing (2014). “Endurance”, p.247, Perseus Books Group
“Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.”
“After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it. . . . People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.”
“If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.”

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