"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Education Quotes

“It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.”
“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”
“I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.”
“We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.”
“Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.”
“I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.”
“Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable”

Source : FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Nov 30, 2012

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