"I've written three books you could think of as memoirs."

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Calvin Trillin

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Three Quotes

“Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.”

Source : "Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time".
“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.”
“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”
“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”

Source : Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.5, Anchor
“Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.”
“Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.”
“I grew up in a family where I was told there were no limitations on me as a girl and I could be anything I wanted to be. It wasn't until I joined the military that I realized that just because I was a woman - just because I had ovaries - I couldn't become a fighter pilot.These structural limitations were the motivation for me becoming a fighter pilot in the first place.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 29, 2013

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