"Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?"

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Source : Michelle Cliff (2009). “Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories”, p.95, U of Minnesota Press

Michelle Cliff

“I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.”

Source : " Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee dies", www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.
“Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.”
“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”
“In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.”

Source : Dan Barber (2014). “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”, p.120, Penguin
“Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“God has no other hands than ours.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
“Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?”
“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.”

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