There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: humor reading books humour literature funny book novels reading-books covers book-quotes book-cover-quotes i-love-books i-love-reading i-love-to-read book-cover book-covers back-cover back-covers
Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born.
Bart HopkinsStichwörter: life morality family literature emotions texas
Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with it. It arrives without references, without credentials we can trust. Givers of prizes (not to mention critics) do the best they can, but they may—they probably will—be scoffed at by their children’s children. We, the living readers, whether or not we’re members of juries, decide, all on our own, if we suspect ourselves to be in the presence of greatness. We’re compelled to let future generations make the more final decisions, which will, in all likelihood, seem to them so clear as to produce a sense of bafflement over what was valued by their ancestors; what was garlanded and paraded, what carried to the temple on the shoulders of the wise.
Michael CunninghamStichwörter: literature reviewing
I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however, was a single human being to be seen. No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding. One sees the places where they live and the roads that link them, one sees the smoke rising from their houses and factories, one sees the vehicles in which they sit, but one sees not the people themselves. And yet they are present everywhere upon the face of the earth, extending their dominion by the hour, moving around the honeycombs of towering buildings and tied into networks of a complexity that goes far beyond the power of any one individual to imagine, from the thousands of hoists and winches that once worked the South African diamond mines to the floors of today's stock and commodity exchanges, through which the global tides of information flow without cease. If we view ourselves from a great height, it is frightening to realize how little we know about our species, our purpose and our end, I thought, as we crossed the coastline and flew out over the jelly-green sea.
W.G. SebaldStichwörter: literature flying europe airplane
Language is the key to the heart of people.
Ahmed DeedatStichwörter: love people peace religion heart literature language christian harmony culture islam arabic english key hindu muslims ahmed ahmed-deedat deedat non-muslim
Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.
Tim RadfordStichwörter: inspirational words power-of-words literature english
All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Rivera SunStichwörter: art books photography women inspiration beauty literature journalism library photographs
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Ezra PoundStichwörter: literature letters
Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?
Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience
Stichwörter: society literature musician
I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and you know nothing else about him, just as this station is called only 'station' and beyond it there exists nothing except the unanswered signal of a telephone ringing in a dark room of a distant city.
Italo CalvinoStichwörter: reading writing literature characterization setting point-of-view
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