"If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop â€“ a big enough one so that the staff wouldnâ€™t hassle a browser â€“ and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop."

-- Francis Spufford

#Memories Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Compassion takes imagination.”

Source : Interview on ABC Chicago, May 3, 2011.
“Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.”
“Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.”
“A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.”
“The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.”

Source : Barbara Marx Hubbard (2010). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.203, New World Library
“Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.”
“You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.”
“It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.”

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