Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...
Ida B. Wells (1862 – 1931):
“The way to right wrongs is to
turn the light of truth upon them.”
Ginger Rogers (1911 – 1995):
(said about her) “Ginger Rogers did everything
Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.”
Anatole Broyard (1920 – 1990):
“ A good book is never
exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give
weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a
river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms, fogs, zephyrs.
"I read about a family whose
apartment consists of a series of spaces so strictly planned that they are
obliged to give away their books as soon as they've read them. I think they
have misunderstood the way books work.
"Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It's both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”
"Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It's both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”
Anita Brookner (1928 - ):
“Problems of human behavior
still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly
filed.”
and
“I suppose what one wants
really is ideal company and books are ideal company.”
Tony Kushner (1956 - ):
“In this world, there is a kind
of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
and
“Don't be afraid; people are so
afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least
this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.”
and
“I hate America. I hate this
country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like
you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He
set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate.
Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at
the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in
America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s
got to love something.”
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