"Books are a time machine."

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Jonathan Nolan

#Book Quotes #Machines Quotes #Time Machine Quotes

“The further the fall, the greater the hurt.”
“When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.”
“When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.”
“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”
“Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.”
“Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.”
“Literature is the history of the soul.”

Source : Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.457, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.”

Source : "Al Neuharth's Legacy Lives On" by Richard Benedetto, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2013.

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