"If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . ."

-- Robertson Davies

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Secret Quotes

“We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.”
“On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.3, Library of Alexandria
“To see the world is to judge the judges.”
“But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.”
“Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.”
“When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.”
“Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?”

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