"Where am I when I am involved in a book?"

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Source : Sven Birkerts (2015). “Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age”, p.153, Macmillan

Sven Birkerts

“What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?”
“Do what you say you will do.”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, Jane Bozarth (2011). “Strengthening Credibility: A Leader's Workbook”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons
“Poetry became my doctor, my lover...”
“I never boned a honey that I didn't like, I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike. I never had a spliff to make me choke, I never had a pocket that was broke.”
“We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.”
“All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another”
“I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'”
“Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.”

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