"Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!"

-- Cornelia Funke

#Book Quotes #Heartless Quotes #Promise Quotes

“The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.”
“All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.”
“Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press
“People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.”
“There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.”
“Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.”
“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.”
“One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.”

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