"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."

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Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1954). “The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers”

Lawrence Clark Powell

#Book Quotes #Needs Quotes #Defense Quotes

“Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.”

Source : Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.13, Conari Press
“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.”

Source : David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press
“You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.”
“Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”
“There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones. I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different Hamlets, and every one has given me something different.”
“â€Ž"Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.”
“My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My definition of success is control.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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