"A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

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“One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.”

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
“By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.”
“I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.”
“When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.”
“I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.”
“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
“When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.”
“I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.”

Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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