"I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds."

-- Drew Gilpin Faust

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“I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.143, Penguin UK
“I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.”
“To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.”
“Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!”
“If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.”
“We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.”
“It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.”
“When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”

Source : Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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