"I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library."

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Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

Vijay Seshadri

#Book Quotes #Library Quotes #Fifth Grade Quotes

“We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.”
“You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!”
“Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.”
“If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.”
“If thereâ€™s one thing that makes a man sick, itâ€™s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.”
“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”
“No pope ever condemned slavery.”
“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.”

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