"To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft."

-- Alberto Manguel

#Book Quotes #World Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.”
“The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.”
“I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make it make sense to that language. But one thing that was really important to me was not to italicize any of the words in the languages that were in the stories, because I feel like those foreign words felt just as important and integral to the story as everything else, so I wanted it all to just exist as its own thing.”
“Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!”
“I want to keep winning-the hell with the record”
“There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.”
“Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.”
“Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.”

Source : "When ‘Mad Men’ Meets Augmented Reality". www.fastcompany.com. March 24, 2009.

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