"I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun."

-- Margaret Haddix

#Summer Quotes #Fun Quotes #Reading Quotes

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.
“A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
“But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.”
“Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the badâ€“ including your own bad.”
“Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.”
“Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.”
“This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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