"I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."

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Source : "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

Patrick Ness

#Waiting Quotes #Library Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”
“I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.”
“this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.”
“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.”
“That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memoryâ€” hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.”

Source : Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I didn't expect it at all. It was for the August issue, perhaps one of the less relevant months, but there was so much buzz. It was picked up all over the American television, but I defended my position. I don't understand those that say that a magazine such as Vogue should not talk about these things.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.”
“Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.”

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