Monday, April 18, 2011

Three New Quotes I love

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death


“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady


“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”

- Alan Watts

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