"I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness."

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Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1973). “Books in My Baggage: Adventures in Reading and Collecting”, Greenwood Publishing Group

Lawrence Clark Powell

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“I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.”
“when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.”
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”
“The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term â€˜memeâ€™ for a unit of cultural imitation.”

Source : Matt Ridley (2010). “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK
“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”
“NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.”
“On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.”
“Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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