"What people value in their booksâ€”and thus what they count as literatureâ€”really tells you more about them than it does about the book."

-- Brent Weeks

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.”
“Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.”
“Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they don't think they threw away at j-school. I studied comparative literature, but the professional vagaries of journalism I've learned through other people's trial and error, and my own.”
“So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.”
“Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.”

Source : Erving Goffman (1969). “Where the action is: three essays”, Lane, Allen
“The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.”
“What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.”
“To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.”

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