"Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback."

-- John Updike

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“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”
“I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?”
“If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”
“As long as I breathe, I attack.”

Source : "P Is For Peloton: The A-Z Of Cycling" by Suze Clemitson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2015.
“I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.”
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
“A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.”

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