"The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper."

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Mike Greenberg

#Admire Quotes #Contemporary Quotes

“Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.”
“It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.”
“Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.”

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.98, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.”
“The things you get fired for when youâ€™re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when youâ€™re old.”
“You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.”
“As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.”
“I would like to be known as someone who was really sweet but also knowledgeable in all areas of life.”

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