"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

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Robert Louis Stevenson

#Inspiring Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Photography is an empathy towards the world.”
“I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.”
“Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.”
“[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.”
“When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.”
“I love house music. I love all music.”

Source : Interview with Jane Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.
“In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.”

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