"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.”
“We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”
“So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each control a huge resource so that there's an uneasy alliance, but they all need each other.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.”
“It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.”
“I actually got to stay and watch the filming of different parts of the movie [Romeo+Juliet]. I got to meet some of the co-stars, like John Leguizamo.”
“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
“If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.”

Source : Immanuel Velikovsky (1966). “Worlds in Collision”, p.19, Paradigma Ltd

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