"The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry."

-- Lynda Barry

#Art Quotes #Reading Quotes #Book Quotes

“I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, Look away! Ignore it, ignore the ***** in the room, move along, nothing to see here!”
“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that.”
“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
“If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.583, Simon and Schuster
“How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.”
“So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.”
“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”

Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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