"People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #People Quotes

“People's clothes ought to be buried with them.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.86, St. Martin's Press
“Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.”
“I think when you leave a band in any situation that you are a part of.. I mean, when I was with It Bites I was a quarter of something, and when I was with Robert Plant I was a sixth of some- thing and when you leave you become the whole thing. So just after you spend time realizing what you are, and it just happened that I was doing that in my life as well as musically, it kind of happened at the same time. I was getting to a point in my life where I was beginning to realize who I am, and I like me.”
“...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.”
“My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.”
“There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.”
“God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.”

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