"Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt."

-- Alexander Chee

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Memorable Quotes

“Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.”
“The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.”

Source : Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”
“Arithmetic has began to totter.”
“The President must be true to his word. He must keep his faith with the folks who elected him twice. In other words, he must replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a strict constructionist. The president has a God-given opportunity to change the balance on the Supreme Court. On issue after issueâ€”abortion, sodomy, public display of the Ten Commandmentsâ€”O'Connor has sided with the court's liberal bloc. Time and again, Justice O'Connor and her colleagues have used the Constitution as an excuse to force weird social experiments on the nation.”
“Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.”
“Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.”
“I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.”

Source : "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2012.
“I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.”

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